January 23, 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

Keyboard Settings: 100%

Zoom Input: 45%

Recital:

  1. A Skating Waltz, Boris Berlin

    1. WAY TOO FAST! Practice starting with m.m. 120, NO faster!

    2. Cute and delicate

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

    1. Delicate, gentle, playful

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

    1. Don’t rush your QUARTER NOTES

    2. Happy, bouncy

      1. Angelfish by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

    1. END THIS PIECE SOFTLY!

    2. Dreamy, contemplative, yearning, expressive

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

    1. Gentle, calm, meditative

  5. Colored Windows, Eda Mae Burnam (Jan 12th PLACE AFTER FAST PIECE

    1. Calm, Spiritual, Contemplative, textural

    2. MEMORY ISSUES. PRACTICE WITH AND WITHOUT MUSIC.

    3. ENDING DOESN’T SEEM LIKE AN ENDING. SLOW IT DOWN AND GET SOFTER!

  6. Canon by Cornelius Gurlitt MAYBE THE BOY MET A FRIEND AND TALK ABOUT A “CANON”

    1. Forward feeling, short, gentle

  7. Invention in A Minor, by Frederick Silverster LEAVE OUT?

    1. Swinging, sad, short, contemplative

  8. We Three Kings of Orient Are (Jan 12th) WAS THIS DURING THE HOLIDAY AND

    1. YOUR RUSHING BEFORE THE LAST THEME COMES IN.

  9. The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude) (Jan 12th) THE BOY’S HAVING A GOOD TIME ON HIS JOURNEY AND MEETS SOME NEW FRIENDS

    1. Upbeat, contemporary,

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

    1. Don’t rush your quarter notes

    2. Keep the staccato crisp!

    3. Ending needs a slight ritardando.

  11. Distant Chimes, Jon George DO THE DISTANT CHIMES CALL THE LITTLE BOY ON A JOURNEY?

    1. Dreamy, gentle, calm

    2. STUDY THE RHYTHM OF THE LAST NOTES AT THE END!

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