2020-2021 Lesson 8 of 16

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

TECHNIQUE - start with this assignment for each practice session.

1. PREPARE: all of page 8

   1. Remember to keep wrist up and rock to the notes when playing broken triads.

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MUSICIANSHIP

1. ***Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

   2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

   3. Login Info:

      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

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THEORY

1. Celebrate Theory: Level 3

   1. Prepare All of Unit 1 and email to me by Monday morning.

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READING

1. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 3

   1. Review Set 1

   2. Do one “Day” per practice session.

2. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2A

   1. Move on from page 52

   2. Set a tempo by finding the shortest note-value first. Imagine yourself playing that section no faster than you think you can sightread. That’s your tempo.

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REPERTOIRE

1. Away in a Manger

   1. LEARN TO THE END!

   2. What does “blocking” mean? It means playing all the notes within the same harmony, at the same time (think about solid/blocked triads in your technique.

2. Margaret Goldston (1932-2003), Sparkling Brook (L. 2, B)

   1. Review once a week with your music.

3. Melody Bober (1955-), I Spy

   1. Bring this back in your fingers by playing it SLOWLY with your music in SMALL SECTIONS. Three times correctly.

   2. Record for Winter Recital

4. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Menuet en rondeau

   1. Review

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

6. Christina Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820-1886), Etude in F Major, Op. 190 No. 27

7. Christopher Norton (1953-), Feelin’ Good

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Repertoire for Review

1. Christopher Norton

   1. Half Asleep (L. 2, B)

2. Nancy Telfer

   1. The Silent Moon (L. 2 List B)

3. L. V. Beethoven

   1. , Ecossaise in G Major (L. 2 List A)

4. Teresa Richert (b. 1954)

   1. Far Away (L. 1, Etude)

5. Franz Josef Haydn

   1. German Dance in G Major Hob. IX:22, No. 3 by