March 6, 2024

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

Register for Level 4 RCM assessment by February 10th, 2024

Royal Conservatory of Music

  1. Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023

    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)

🖤IN NEWZIK: Level 4

❤️❤️Level 4 RCM Technique

  1. See the highlighted items in your syllabus.

  2. FIX YOUR POSITION AND FINGERING. PLAY FURTHER INTO THE BLACK SO YOU NEVER GO IN AND OUT OF THE KEYS.

  3. For each item, do:

    1. High Loud

    2. Close Loud

    3. Staccato

    4. Slow legato

    5. Speed-build legato

🖤Hanon No. 1

  1. High Loud: hands together, all the way through, one time per day

💜Sight Reading Level 3A (at least 5 min each day)

  1. Continue on from p. 87

  2. BEFORE YOU TOUCH THE KEYS: do the rhythm in you head. Set a steady beat and treat it as a rhythm assignment first.

💚Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 4 (IN NEWZIK)

  1. Finish Set 8

💚Celebrate Theory: Level 4, Unit 6

  1. Double check your work.

💛Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach (L. 4, A)

  1. Learn page 2!

  2. Play through 4 measures at m.m. 120

  3. Find the spots that need work.

  4. Do them:

    1. Hands alone at a slower tempo

    2. Then hands together.

  5. Gradually speed-build starting at a slower tempo.

  6. Zoom in if you need any special work.

❤️❤️Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

  1. Please spot mm. 16-25 until you can play this up to tempo correctly. Hands alone, slow practice, etc.

💜Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 4, B)

  1. all 16th note passages do close loud and staccato practice. Hands alone and together. Three times each day.

  2. Practcie in chunks until you can play with no pauses.

💚Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (1819-1905) (L. 4, Etude)

  1. Pass off next week by memory.

  2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

  3. Practice pllaying through entire piece three times correctly.

🖤The Avalanche op. 45 no. 2 by Stephen Heller (1812-1888) (L. 4, Etude)

🖤The Somersault King by Mike Schoenmehl (b. 1957) (L. 4, Etude)

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

  2. 💚Polonaise in G Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

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

  4. Johann Friedrich Burgmuller (1806-1874)

    1. 💚Etudes, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)

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

  6. 💚Olson, Sunset at the Beach (L. 4, C)

  7. Jingle Bells by James Pierpont arr. by Martha Mier

  1. Albert Biehl (1935-1899)

    1. 💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by (L. 3, B)

  2. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

    1. 💚Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

  3. George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

    1. 💚Gavotte in G Major (L. 2, A)

  4. Christina Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820-1886)

    1. 💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190 No. 27 (L. 2, A)