February 4, 2023 (4 of 4)

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

🟢 - on the right track, great work!

🟡 - on the right track but it needs more wor

🔴 - needs lots of attention and work

⚫️ - no assignment - don’t practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item,

💚IN NEWZIK: Level 4

  1. Practice the highlighted items.

  2. Think about where finger 4 is before you start.

  3. Say in your mind, the key signatures.

💛Sight Reading Level 3A

  1. Read from page 27

  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 3 (IN NEWZIK)

  1. FOUR STAR 03 08

    1. For the sightreading examples, do the same as the assignment above.

💚Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 3

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

  2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

  3. Login Info:

    1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

    2. dust2789

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 3, Unit 8

    1. Fix all the circles in the unit and be prepared for a small quiz on at the end of the unit.

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

  1. Remind yourself about Barbara:

    1. Born in Lebanon, 1960

    2. Played harpsichord and organ and flute.

    3. Music school in Salzburg at age 13

    4. Style is a mix of pop, neo-baroque, jazz, etc.

  2. FIX THE LH REGISTER

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

  1. Fix all markings (SPOT THEM as we did at the lesson)

    1. SLOWLY, hands alone first, then together, at LEAST 3 times in-a-row correctly.

    2. Then make the section slightly bigger. Do the same thing hands together, 3 times in-a-row.

    3. Now speed up your section a bit closer to the final tempo.

    4. Now make you section even bigger!

    5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 if needed.

    6. Repeat this same practice the next day, for AT LEAST THREE PRACTICE SESSIONS IN-A-ROW.

  2. Play for Feb. 5th Performance Class.

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

  1. PLEASE SEE ALL THE MARKINGS IN YOUR MUSIC.

  2. NO FASTER THAN M.M. 66 PER QUARTER NOTE!

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

  1. Review with your music by starting at three random measures each practice session.

  2. Prepare for February 5th.

❤️Use your music!

  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)

  5. Anne Crosby-Gaudet

    1. Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)

  6. Christopher Norton

    1. 💚Feelin’ Good (L. 2, B)

  7. L. V. Beethoven

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

  8. Teresa Richert (b. 1954)

    1. Far Away (L. 1, Etude)