February 15, 2023 (2 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 10

    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.

🖤Olson, Sunset at the Beach (L. 4, C)

💜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. Tidy attacks please :)

  2. Practice starting from random measures and practice hands alone.

  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)