November 19, 2025

TWO ASSIGNMENTS THIS WEEK:

🟩Like Him

  1. Measures 75-78 - clean pedal but keep good dynamic build.

  2. Measures 86-87 - have a small break in the sound in order to hear the dynamic change to mp.

  3. Measures 87-88 - focus on the voice in these measures.

  4. Measures 95-102 - gradually speed-build four notes at a time to the final tempo. Then combine two groups to make eight, etc.

  5. Measures 102-108 - continue to focus on slow practice and tidy attacks.

  6. Measures 109-122 - learn!

🟩Mozart Sonata, No. 11 in A Major, III. Rondo: Alla Turca

  1. Current Status:

    1. Measures 1-41 learned

    2. Measures 41-48 hands alone

  2. Practice slowly enough so that you make ZERO mistakes with notes and fingering. Don’t worry about the rhythm or tempo.

  1. Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)

  2. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

  3. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)

  4. Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)

Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024

  1. List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach

  2. List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli

  3. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer

  4. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn

  5. Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill

Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 ( score of 87)

  1. List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

  2. List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)

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

  4. Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)

  5. Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)