May 6, 2022

Lesson Assignments

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

RCMCP

  • Level 1: December 6, 2019, Received 85

  • Level 3: December 9, 2021, Received 82

  • Level 4:

TECHNIQUE

  1. Hanon No. 4 in C Major

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    1. End Goal: m.m. 104

      1. THIS WEEK: try to work up to m.m. 84. thinking of two reference points in each pattern.

      2. Do technical work as needed.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 4

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    1. See the blue.

    2. PRACTICE EACH ITEM 3 TIMES IN-A-ROW CORRECTLY!

      1. FOR EACH ITEM:

        1. CLOSE LOUD:

        2. STACCATO:

        3. LEGATO

Theory

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 4

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    1. MEMORIZE THE FOLLOWING

      1. Dolce - sweet and gentle

      2. Maestoso - Majestic

      3. Marcato - Marked or stressed

    2. PREPARE UNIT 1

Musicianship

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4

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    1. Read all the instructions in the beginning of the book

    2. Prepare Set 5

  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 4

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    1. Do the interval recognition online.

    2. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  3. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 3B

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    1. Move on from page 22

      1. m.m. 40 - 60 no faster than this

      2. In your mind, clap and ta the rhythm before you start.

Repertoire

  1. March in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 by Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) (L. 4, A)

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    1. Speed build from m.m. 63 and continue to get this piece into your fingers so we can add better dynamic range.

  2. Sonatina in F Major op. 168 no. 1 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 4, B)

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    1. Fix all pen.

    2. Work in groups of 2-6 measures and spot so you can play with no pauses.

    3. Work on getting a big, aggressive sound at the end.

  3. (Need contemporary list C, slow AND fast)

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  4. (Need Romantic list C, fast)

  5. (Need four etudes)

Listening Assignments

  1. Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas

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    1. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNEfi9hag0PZ1QSlanqw9PySdR1Aflz1e (Pianist Richard Goode)

    2. Listen to Sonata No. 1 in F Minor.

    3. Listen for the characters in the sonata. When do they come back? What do they do in the middle?

  2. Bach Inventions

  1. Your preferences are No. 6, 7, 9 and 10. Perhaps we can learn No. 10 and 6 because they are related keys with one sharp.

Review Pieces

  1. 💚Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) (L. 4, C)

  2. 💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 4, A)

  3. 💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

  4. 💚Bach, Musette in D Major (L. 3, A)

  5. 💚Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

  6. 💚Gavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  7. 💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major - Movement 1 (L. 3, B).

  8. 🟢Gavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  9. 🟢Tajcevic, Little Piece No. 7 (Etude, L. 3)

  10. 🟢Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  11. 🟢Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  12. 🟢Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3 Etude)

  13. 💚Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

  14. 🟢Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

  15. 🟢Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

  16. 💚Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) German Dance in B-flat Major Hob. IX:22 No. 5 (L. 2, A)

  17. 🟣Edna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

  18. 🟣Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude in C Major Op. 36 No. 22 (L. 2, Etude)

  19. ❤️The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

Review Once a Week with your Music

CLASSICAL

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Minuet in F Major K. 2 by (L. 1, A)

CONTEMPORARY

  1. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    1. For Children, Book 1, No. 1 and 2 (L. 2, B)

  2. (recital) Etude in C Major by Felix le Coupey (L. 1 Etude)

  3. Skating Waltz

  4. Distant Chimes.

  5. Canon by Carleton Elliot (1928-2003) (L. 1, C)

  6. (3/23) Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1 Etude)

  7. (3/23) German Dance in D Major by F. J. Haydn (Level 1. A)

  8. Angelfish (Level 1. B)


HOLD

  1. Czerny Op. 823

    1. we left off on no. 8

  1. Rhythm Book.

    1. PREPARE: Nos. 43-45 on page 23

RCMCP

Exam: Piano - Level 3
Exam Confirmation No.: 5391486
Scheduled for: Thursday, 09 December 2021 2:00 PM

  • List A: Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  • List B: Muzio Clementi, Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1, Allegro

  • List C: Wild Mignonette Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

  • Etude: Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  • Etude: Grill, Left Alone (L. 3, Etude)