February 11, 2023 (1 of ?)

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,

Royal Conservatory of Music

  • Level 3, Practical Test: May/June 2023

🖤IN NEWZIK: Level 4

💚Review Level 3 items each week.

💚Hanon No. 1

  1. Close Loud (no faster than m.m. 92 per 16th note)

  2. Staccato (no faster than m.m. 76 per 8th note)

💚Sight Reading Level 3A

  1. Read from page 36

  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 09

    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

💜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.

💜New piece next lesson (Level 4)

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

  1. Relax your right hand wrist - make it loose as you play the shape of the melody.

  2. Keep your LH 8th notes really quiet.

  3. 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.

  4. FIX THE LH REGISTER

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

  1. See the markings and instructions in Newzik.

💜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.

  1. 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)

  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)