January 19, 2021

2019-2020 Private Lesson Enrollment: Semester

Lesson Assignments

Technique - START YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS

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  1. Level 2 Technique Test:

    1. 80% Accurate today.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 3

    1. SCALES: Learn **B abd D Minor harmonic and melodic.

      1. Look where finger 4 plays in each hand BEFORE YOU START.

      2. Also listening for tidy attacks.

Theory

  1. *Celebrate Theory: Level 3

    1. Emailed to me on December 22pol

    2. Finish Unit 3 and email me your work

Musicianship

  1. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

    1. Prepare Review Set 2

    2. Prepare Set 1

  3. Sightreading Level 2A

    1. Move on from page 70

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

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

Repertoire

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Zoom Input: 45%

Recital:

  1. Minuet in F Major, Mozart (Jan 16)

    1. Practice at a medium tempo and then final tempo with and without music.

    2. Delicate, gentle, playful

  2. German Dance in B-flat major, Haydn (Jan 16)

    1. Practice at a medium tempo and then final tempo with and without music.

    2. Happy, bouncy

  3. A Skating Waltz, Boris Berlin

    1. LH melody. RH VERY SOFT! NO FASTER THAN M.M. 132.

    2. SLOW DOWN OVER THE LAST TWO MEASURES AND GET SOFTER.

    3. Cute and delicate

    4. Memory Issuees

  4. For Children, Book 1, No. 2, Bartok (Jan 16)

    1. WHEN YOU FINISH THE PIECE, STAY IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR HANDS IN YOUR LAP.

    2. LAST THREE MEASURES - GET EVEN SOFTER.

    3. Gentle, calm, meditative

  5. Colored Windows, Eda Mae Burnam (Jan 12th)

    1. CONTINUE TO REVIEW WITH AND WITHOUT MUSIC. CAREFUL OF YOUR TEMPO. NOT TOO FAST.

      1. Calm, Spiritual, Contemplative, textural

      2. Voicing, expression

  6. Distant Chimes, Jon George

    1. FIX ALL THE PURPLE MARKINGS IN NEWZIK.

    2. Dreamy, gentle, calm

  7. Canon by Cornelius Gurlitt

    1. FIX THE PURPLE MARKINGS IN NEWZIK. USE A METRONOME.

    2. Forward feeling, short, gentle

  8. Invention in A Minor, by Frederick Silverster

    1. TIDY ATTACKS. PRACTICE WITH METRONOME.

    2. Swinging, sad, short, contemplative

  9. Angelfish by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

    1. PRACTICE WITH METRONOME. MORE DYNAMICS THAT ARE ALREADY WRITTEN IN THE MUSIC.

    2. Dreamy, contemplative, yearning, expressive

  10. We Three Kings of Orient Are (Jan 12th)

    1. See all the yellow markings in Newzik.

  11. The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude) (Jan 12th)

    1. See the yellow markings in Newzik.

      1. Upbeat, contemporary,

      2. Rhythm issues

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

    1. introductory, upbeat, perky, happy, short

    2. Needs speed building.

Repertoire

  1. Burgmuller Arabesque

    1. Keep LH wrist higher on the staccato chords.

    2. Learn RH section B. See markings in your music.

  2. We Three Kings of Orient Are

    1. All Markings Must be fixed!

    2. Spot each of these sections for at least three practice sessions in-a-row.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. Reivew.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

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