June 10, 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. 5 in C Major

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    1. Revise the way you practice Hanon:

      1. Close Loud First

        1. Every finger curved, ascending and descending, Forward and strong attack.

      2. Staccato Second

        1. Keep fingers round and attack from above the keys.

      3. Medium Tempi

        1. Start at m.m. 66 and work your way up to 116:

        2. Mm. 66, 72, 84, 96, 104, 108, 112, 116

        3. Remember to keep you fingers rounder / curved. They are currently too stretched out.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 4

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    1. See the yellow highlight. Prepare up to the final tempo indicated in the PDF.

    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. Complete pages 1-8 in Unit 3

Musicianship

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4

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    1. Prepare Set 9

  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 4

    🖤

    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

    🖤

    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. Etude in G Major, op. 823 no. 53 (L. 4, Etude)

    1. Start to learn with NFRPE

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

    💚

    1. Speed-build to m.m. 72

    2. This needs rock solid tempo. No unevenness.

    3. Add new dynamics

    4. Pass next week by memory.

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

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    1. Fix all the pen and work up to m.m. 80 this week.

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

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  5. The Happy Farmer, op. 68 no. 10 by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (L. 4, C)

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    1. Make all of your staccato notes more detached and come off the keys more.

  6. (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)