May 28, 2022

Maurice Ravel[n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.

Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abilities in orchestration, Ravel made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' piano music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.

A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require skilful balance in performance.

Ravel was among the first composers to recognise the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision.

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.

RCMCP:

Level 5: Fall 2022

  • List A:

  • List B:

  • List C:

  • Etude 1:

  • Etude 2:

TECHNIQUE

  1. HANON No. 3 in E Major (at least 8-10 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 (5-7 min a day)

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    1. Prepare the Arpeggios: A Major, A Minor, E Major.

    2. See the fingering in the BSB Scale PDF as needed.

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 5, Unit 2

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    1. Prepare page 15

READING

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

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    1. Prepare Review Set 2

REPERTOIRE

  1. Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No. 5, III: Rondo: allegro molto (L. 5, A)

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    1. Ask Siri for a number between 1-75 and practice starting from that measure. Do this three times each practice session.

    2. Mm. 1-75 - practice understanding where the beginnings and endings of phrases are and use extreme expression in sound and body language.

    3. Learn to the end.

  2. Sonata in D Minor, K 34 by Scarlatti (L. 5, A)

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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)

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. 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.



  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)