November 14, 2024

2024-2025 (10th grade, RCM L. 7)

Theory Level 6 test

RCM Level 7 practical and theory

Senior Project:

Jenny will research an idea and get back to me at the next lesson: Research what is currently online and available for your instrument “online marketplace.”

Community service based. Internship with Juilliard / MSM / Manes Community Outreach departments? Concert series in underserved communities? Raising money for instruments / performances in rest homes / shelters.

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10th Grade in 2024-2025

RCMCP

Level 5: Spring 2023, Score of 82

Level 6: May 29, Score of

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1. Senior Project: Music to underserved communities: for example Bronx music / church

2. 💜Sight-reading: (at least 5 min a day - set a timer) left off on p. 16

   1. Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, Op. 39 (started 9/10/2024)

      1. If the piece is particularly difficult, it’s possible to stay on the same piece for more than one day.

   2. FINISHED:

      1. Burgmuller, Op. 100 (left off on p. 32) (9/10/2024)

3. ❤️Technique: Level 7 RCM

   1. See the yellow highlights.

   2. See the Technique BSB Major and Minor PDFs for fingering help (arpeggios)

   3. ❤️Arpeggios: no faster than m.m. 96 per note right now.

   4. ❤️Four Note Chords: recheck your fingering.

4. 💜Billy Joel: The Piano Man (L. 7, Popular Selection)

   1. Record yourself playing and listen back to identify any section that need work.

   2. Speed-building AND play at a medium tempo.

5. 💚Suite in G Minor, HWV 432: Gigue, by Handel (L. 7, A)

   1. One measure at a time hands alone then together.

6. 💜Consolation, op. 30, no. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) (L. 7, C)

   1. Learn to the end.

   2. Start to identify any spots in which there are pauses. Make “spots” out of them.

7. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 6 Unit 8

   1. Finish the practice exam

8. 🖤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.

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

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

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

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

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

Princess Mononoke L. 6, Etude (popular selection)

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

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)

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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.