March 13 & 21, 2024

9th Grade in 2023-2024

2023 Fall Milestones

  1. Finalized October 2, 2023

  2. Draft Ideas

    1. New repertoire

    2. Level 5 Theory Test RCM

      1. Received a score of 88

    3. Performance Class December 10, 2023

      1. Video / Audio

      2. chamber music with piano?

RCMCP

Level 5: Spring 2023, Score of 82

  1. 🖤HANON No. 8 in C Major (at least 5-10 min a day)

    1. Start with Close Loud

    2. Then alternate the following techniques throughout the week:

      1. Staccato

      2. Accent Practice (every other note, then alternate)

      3. Rhythm Practice (long, long, short, short, then alternate)

      4. Articulation Practice (staccato, staccato, legato, legato, then alternate)

      5. Sprint Practice (Long and several shorts)

    3. Then legato and speed-build. Start at m.m. 80 per quarter note and work up to mm. 104 per quarter

      1. No. 7: 104 per quarter note

      2. No. 6: 104 per quarter note

      3. No. 5: 104 per quarter note

      4. NO. 4: 126 per quarter note.

  2. 💚RCMCP Technique Level 6 (at least 5 min a day)

    1. Prepare the highlighted items

      1. Hands alone first, then together, close loud, staccato (tap from above the key with loose wrist).

    2. MAKE SURE TO DO TWO OCTAVES WHEN IT SAYS

    3. CORRECT RHYTHM

  1. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 6 Unit 2

    1. Finish the unit. Pick up from page 9 with Dustin next time.

  1. 💚Sight-reading: (at least 5 min a day - set a timer)

    1. Level 2 repertoire

    2. Left off on page 38

  2. ❤️Four Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests Level 6

    1. Finish set 7

REPERTOIRE

  1. 💚I Dreamed a Dream by Claude-Michel Schönberg (L. 6, Etude - popular selection)

    1. Review mm. 1-6

    2. Learn at least the next 6 measures.

  2. 🖤Princess Mononoke L. 6, Etude (popular selection)

    1. Learn after Les Miserables

  3. 💚Aria in G Major by Telemann (L. 6, A)

    1. Smooth out any transitions and any issues with fingering and notes.

  4. 💛Diabelli, Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 No. 1: Rondo (L. 6, B)

    1. Claw-tapping wrist technique for all triplet detached notes.

    2. Force yourself to play quickly in a small burst. Don’t worry about mistakes. Do it a few times and see what mistakes are consistent. Then slow down and gradually speed up hands alone then together.

  5. 💚Chopin Waltz in A minor (L. 6, C)

    1. Before you begin, meditate about the weight of your arm into the fingertips to produce a good deep melodic sound for the melody.

    2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece with the music

💚Review once a week with your music at a medium tempo.

BAROQUE

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

  1. March in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 (L. 4, A)

Georg Friederic Handel

  1. 💚Air in B-flat Major, HWV 471 (L. 4, A)

CLASSICAL

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

  1. Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1

    1. I: Allegro (L. 3, B)

  2. 💚Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2,

    1. III: Allegro (L. 4, B)

  3. Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No. 5,

    1. III: Rondo: allegro molto (L. 5, B)

Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)

  1. 💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

ROMANTIC

Rohde, Dance of the Dragonflies, Op. 76 No. 7 (L. 5, Etude)

Harmony of Angels, Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 21 (L. 5, Etude)

Robert Schumann

  1. 💚The Happy Farmer (L. 4, C)

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmuller (1806-1874)

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

Tchaikovsky

  1. 💚Old French Song Op. 39 No. 16 (L. 4, C)

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY

Anne Crosby-Gaudet

  1. 💚Dream Catcher by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 4, C)

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

  1. Folk Dance Op. 39 No. 7 (L. 4, Etude)

Yoshinao Nakada

  1. 💚Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)

Lina Niamath (1939-)

  1. 💚Masquerade (L. 4, Etude)

Martha Mier (b. 1936)

  1. 💜River City Blues (b. 1936) (L. 6, Etude)

Mike Springer

  1. Foggy Day Blues (L. 4, C)

  2. Sunset in Rio (L. 5, C)


  1. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

    3. Login Info:

      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 4

    1. Doesn’t have level 4

    2. Start with Dustin after Masquerade is finished.