December 7, 2022 (2 of 3)

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 or 6: Spring 2023

  • List A:

  • List B:

  • List C:

  • Etude 1:

  • Etude 2:

  1. HANON No. 6 in C Major (at least 5-10 min a day)

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    1. Start with Close Loud

    2. Then Staccato

    3. Then legato and speed-build. Start at m.m. 88 per quarter note and work up to mm. 104 per quarter note (goal is 116)

      1. No. 5: 104 per quarter note

      2. NO. 4: 126 per quarter note.

  2. RCMCP Technique Level 5 (7 min a day)

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    1. Prepare the highlighted items.

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

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 5, Unit 5

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    1. Finish the unit.

  1. 💚Imagine Dragons: Warriors

    1. Update your score and have ready for next time.

  2. 💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

    1. Do set 7

REPERTOIRE

  1. Harmony of Angels, Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 21 (L. 5, Etude)

    1. Finish learning to the end

    2. Experiment with your position in a way that you’re trying to find the best balance in order to produce even touch and sound.

  2. Sunset in Rio by Springer (L. 5, C)

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    1. Start with this next time

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

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    1. Start with this next time

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)

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