October 27, 2021

2021-2022

Move toward RCMCP Level 5

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

Lesson Assignments:

TECHNIQUE

  1. HANON No. 3 in E Major (at least 5 min a day)

    🟡🟢

    1. Accent practice at a medium tempo, rotating the accent in each group of four notes.

  2. RCMCP Technique Level 5 (3-5 min a day)

    🟣🟢

    1. Keep fingers close to the keys

    2. See your PDF in Newzik

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 4, Unit 4

    🟣🟢

    1. Fix green circles on pages 42-43 in Newzik.

    2. Prepare pages 44-46!

READING

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4

    🟣🟢

    1. Sightread through all of the weekly tests on pages 44-46

    2. Next week - Start Level 5

REPERTOIRE

  1. March in D Major by C.P.E. Bach (L. 4, A)

    🟣🟢

    1. SPOT mm. 10-14 - fix the notes. 3 times in-a-row correctly, 5 times this week.

    2. SPOT mm. 13-15 - fix the position. Same as above.

    3. LEARN to the end. Hands together. Think about position and key signatures.

  2. Clementi, Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Allegro (L. 4, B)

    🟡🟡

    1. Mm. 32-40 - SPOT the position and expression in this section.

      1. Three times correctly at a slow-motion tempo

    2. Mm. 50-56 - SPOT the position and expression as well as the trill.

      1. Method is same as above except the trill practice.

    3. Mm. 60-73 - SPOT

      1. Do close loud for hands alone and together (remember to play slowly!)

      2. Then speed build from m.m. 72

  3. 🟣Handel, Air in B-flat Major, HWV 471 (L. 4, A)

    1. Review once a week with your music.

    1. Review once a week WITH YOUR MSUIC.

    1. Review

    1. Review

  7. 🔴🔴Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

    1. Review

  8. 🟣Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Folk Dance Op. 39 No. 7 (L. 4, Etude)

    1. Review

  9. 🟣Lina Niamath (1939-), Masquerade (L. 4, Etude)

    1. Review

Review once a week with your music.

BAROQUE

CLASSICAL

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

  1. Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1: Allegro (L. 3, B)

Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)

  1. Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

ROMANTIC

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)

Joyce Grill (b. 1936)

  1. Left Alone (L. 3, Etude)

Yoshinao Nakada (L. 3, C)

  1. Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)


  1. RCMCP: Level 3 Spring

    Kunlaya Wang19S36152364326831Level 3 PianoJune 14th, 2020 3:00 PMLIst A: Harlequinade by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780) (L. 3, A)List B: Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1 by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) (L. 3, B)List C: Song of the Twilight by Yoshinao Nakada (L. 3, C)Etude: Burgmuller Op. 100 No. 2 (L. 3 Etude)Etude: Left Alone by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 3, Etude)

  2. 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

  3. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 4

    1. Doesn’t have level 4

    2. Start with Dustin after Masquerade is finished.



  1. Minuet in E-flat Major by Johann Mattheson (1681 - 1764) (L. 3, A)

  2. Prokofiev Op. 65 No. 10

  3. Toccatina by Kabalevsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  12. *Distant Chimes by Jon George

  13. Gavotte in C by Telemann

  14. *Pantomime by Faber

  15. Curious Cat by Teresa Richert (Prep A)

  16. Baby Kangaroo (12/7/17)

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

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

  19. *Let's Waltz by Elvina Pearce (Prep A)