2019-2020 Lesson 1 of 32

* = Assignment is a priority for the following week

** = Assignment was not prepared two weeks in-a-row

RCMCP: Level 3?

Lesson Assignments:

TECHNIQUE

  1. SCALES

    1. PREPARE: D, F, B-flat Majors

    2. PREPARE: B, D, G minors in harmonic and melodic

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READING

  1. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 3

    1. PREPARE: Review Set 1

    2. Test next week

  2. Sightreading 3A

    1. Sightread prepare one each practice session

  3. Solos 3

    1. No assignment

  4. Lesson & Musicianship 3A

    1. PREPARE: page 5

  5. **Solos 2

    1. Finish Unit 12

REPERTOIRE

  1. Harlequinade by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)

    1. Learn using NFRPE charts that I left with you!

  2. Menuet in E-flat Major by Johann Mattheson (1681 - 1764)

    1. Learn after the Krebs

  3. Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1 by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

    1. Learn after the Mattheson

  4. Tchaikovsky Op. 39 No. 9 “Waltz”

    1. mm. 24-26, 33-35, relearn the LH notes! :)

    2. mm. 24 and on, RH articulation.

Practice Tools

  1. Close Loud

    1. With each note, keep your fingers close to the keyboard and pop your wrist up to help release the tension created when you hit the key with force!

  2. Rhythms (Long, short, short, Long, short, short. etc.)

    1. The long notes are strong like “close loud,” and the short notes are light and played as quickly as possible, THINKING about going to the next long note.

  3. Accent Practice

    1. Accent one note in a group and practice alternating the note that receives the accent.

  4. Staccato Practice

  5. Double Note Practice

  6. Slo-Mo Practice


On Hold:

Hanon No. 4-5

  1. Be able to play nos. 4 and 5 back to back without stopping.

  2. WRIST UP PLEASE!

  3. Close Loud

  4. Accent Practice (every other note)

  5. Rhythms

    1. long, long, short, short

    2. short, short, long, long

    3. long, short, short, long

Lesson & Musicianship 2B

  1. Left off on page 30

  2. BARTOK: Mikrokosmos (no assignment)

    1. PREPARE: No. 8 next time

  3. Basic Rhythmic Training (no assignment)

    1. PREPARE: 65-66 Be able to ta and conduct.

  4. Four Star, Sight-reading and Ear Tests (no assignment)

    1. DUSTIN BRING SETS 8-10

    2. Prep B: Set 7

  5. Solfege - (no assignment)

    1. Chapter 8 - left off

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**REVIEW - once a week with your music. The "*" means we've heard it.


Prokofiev Op. 65 No. 10

  1. Toccatina by Kabalevsky

  2. Burgmuller Op. 100 No. “The Limped Stream”

  3. Andante in G Minor by Telemann (L. 1)

  4. *Haydn German Dance in D Major (L. 1)

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

  6. *Celebration by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 1 Etude)

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

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

  9. Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)

  10. *Distant Chimes by Jon George

  11. Gavotte in C by Telemann

  12. *Pantomime by Faber

  13. Curious Cat by Teresa Richert (Prep A)

  14. Baby Kangaroo (12/7/17)

  15. Teeter-Totter by Dale Reubart (Prep A)

  16. Dmitri Kabalevsky: Marching Op. 39 No. 3 (Prep A)

  17. *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)

Performance Class: TWO

  1. Sunday, February 11, 2018

    1. Celebration

    2. Swinging Leprechaun

    3. Hopscotch