February 12, 2025

Level 7 Piano - Confirmation No. 7659316 - May 28, 2025 3:50 PM - Score of

Theory Level 6: Dec 18, 2024 6:22 PM - Score of 89

Level 6: May 29 - Score of 77

Level 5: Spring 2023, Score of 82

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.

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

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10th Grade in 2024-2025

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1. 💚Chickadees (L. 7, Etude)

   1. Fix all pen in the music.

   2. Separate phrases in the RH instead of holding through the notes.

   3. Hands alone practice then together in smaller sections is really helpful.

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

   1. Page 1 - gradually speed-build, two to four beats at a time, starting from m.m. 40 and gradually increasing the speed by a small amount until you get to m.m. 69 per beat.

   2. Finish learning to the end.

3. 💚Sonata in C Minor Op. 17 No. 2. III. Prestissimo by Johann Christian Bach (L. 7, B)

   1. Learn up to measure 8, hands alone, blocked first, then together. Slowly.

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

   1. Work on expression - measures 7-17

   2. Focus on top-voice melody in RH.

   3. Separate phrases with clean pedal changes.

   4. Can you hold longer note values and lift pedal to prevent blurry pedaling?

5. 💚Four Star Level 7

   1. Finish Set 4

   2. Work on interval recognition a bit.

6. 💚Technique: Level 7 RCM

   1. See the blue highlights.

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

7. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 7: Unit 2

   1. Prepare pages 10-11

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

   1. PAUSED:

      1. Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, Op. 39 (left off on p. 27) (paused 11//23/2024)

   2. FINISHED:

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

2. 🖤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.

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

Christmas Time is Here - Charlie Brown Duet

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.