2017-2018 Lesson 7: Jenny Wang

Notes & Makeups

  1. Dustin - order Solo's 2

  2. *Please do your "review" pieces! 

  3. *Jenny sick 10/2 - use makeup week or reschedule 

Performance Class

  1. Sunday, November 19th at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
    1. Far Away
    2. Etude in C

TECHNIQUE

  1. *Hanon No. 1

    1. Please have the following goals completed for next week. This Hanon was so much better this week!
      1. PLEASE KEEP LH THUMB RELAXED
      2. LH WRIST UP

REPERTOIRE

  1. Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude) - (on loan from Dustin)

    1. Review one time a day with your music
    2. Play in performance class! 

  2. Etude in C Major by Félix Le Couppey (L. 1 Etude)

    1. Review once a day with your music. I'd like you to play this in performance class!  

  3. Celebration by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 1 Etude)

    1. Start to build up your speed from m.m. 60 to at least 80
    2. Fix the pedal in m. 9 and m. 12

  4. *A Swinging Leprechaun by Mike Schoenmehl (L. 1 Etude)

    1. Start learning hands alone!

  5. Hopscotch by Boris Berlin (L. 1 Etude)

    1. Have hands together to the end at one tempo. But first make sure that you feel comfortable with the notes before you force yourself to play in strict tempo. 

READING

  1. LESSON & MUSICIANSHIP 2A

    1. REDO: page 43
      1. re-write the melodies with two measure question and two-measure answer. 
    2. PREPARE: 44

  2. SOLOS 2 - (no assignment)

  3. *CZERNY No. 8

    1. Work up to mm. 60 per dotted-quarter note
    2. LH wrist moving forward on each chord
    3. Improvisation next week.

  4. BARTOK (no assignment)

    1. Left off at No. 6

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Basic Rhythmic Training

    1. REDO No. 61 - see the pencil instructions.  

  2. Prep B: Set 7 - (no assignment

  3. Solfege - (no assignment)

    1. Chapter 8 - left off

    ***REVIEW - once a week with your music

    1. Distant Chimes by Jon George
    2. Gavotte in C by Telemann
    3. Pantomime by Faber
    4. Curious Cat by Teresa Richert (Prep A)
    5. Baby Kangaroo
    6. Teeter-Totter by Dale Reubart (Prep A)
    7. Dmitri Kabalevsky: Marching Op. 39 No. 3 (Prep A)
    8. Let's Waltz by Elvina Pearce (Prep A)

      THEORY (no assignment)

      1.  Music Theory for Young Children 3 (no assignment)

        1. Left off at page 34 (scale theory)