December 15, 2021

2021-2022

Move toward RCMCP Level 5

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🟡 - 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.

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RCMCP:

Level 4: Spring 2022

  • List A: March in D Major

  • List B: Sonatina in G Major

  • List C:

  • Etude 1:

  • Etude 2:

TECHNIQUE

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

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

    2. Mark your tempo at which you can accurately.

    3. Gradually speed build from there.

    4. one more week on E major

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

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    1. Keep fingers close to the keys

    2. See your PDF in Newzik

      1. Fix fingering for A-flat major

      2. And F minor

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 4, Unit 7

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    1. Complete pages 1-17

READING

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

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    1. Prepare Review Set 2

REPERTOIRE

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

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    1. Spot the blue section. Slowly, and at least 3 practice sessions, three times in-a-row.

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

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    1. Practice with metronome

    2. Fix purple circles.

    3. Practice starting from 3 random measures each day.

    4. Practice the yellow back to back, then the purple, then the blue. THEN, expand to include several measures before and after.

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

BAROQUE

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: 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)

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)

Mike Springer

  1. 🟢Foggy Day Blues (L. 4, 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)