Monday, May 31, 2010

5 hrs 20 min, 17 items

Sight-reading - 35 min - Mozart 9.2, Faure 3, Handel 18, Poulenc 4 (part of it)

Schubert 1, 2, 3 - 30 min

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr 5 min

Beethoven 2, 3, 4 - 30 min

Villa-Lobos 1,2,4 - 45 min

Villa-Lobos 3 - 35 min

Debussy - 25 min

Bach eb/d# - 35 min

Bach PF Eb, Chopin, Rach MM 4 - 20 min

Sunday, May 30, 2010

4 hrs 45 min, 9 items

Sight-reading -30 min - Brahms 3, Mozart 9.1, Handel 17, Bach 2.3, Faure 2

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr

Rachmaninoff - 1 hr - Moment Musicaux 3 and 4, Fragments

Villa-Lobos 3- 45 min

Debussy - 20 min

Bach - 20 min - Eb minor Fugue

Chopin - 20 min

Schubert sonata and Bach PF in Eb major - 25 min

1 hr, 2 items

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Beethoven 1 - 40 min

Beethoven 2 - 20 min

Friday, May 28, 2010

1 hr 30 min, 7 items

Beethoven 4 - 15 min

Rach MM 3 Fragments and MM4, Schubert 1 and 2, Chopin - 1 hr 15 min

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr

Villa-Lobos 1- 1 hr

40 min, 1 item

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Beethoven 1 - 40 min

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

1 hr 20 min, 2 items

Debussy - 65 min - work on hand position shifts and playing individual measures in tempo; work on evenness of thumbs

Villa-Lobos 1 - 15 min

Monday, May 24, 2010

4 hrs 5 min, 5 items

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr 20 min - q = 76, focus on exposition, play through to end with metronome

Bach - 1 hr - Debunk more of fugue; memorize first page of prelude

Villa-Lobos 3 - 1 hr - Work on rhythms of last few pages

Debussy - 25 min - the problem is that I don't know what I want it to sound like in tempo

Sightreading - 20 min - Mozart 8.3, Bach 2.2, Handel 14, 16

1 hr 15 min, 2 items

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Rachmaninoff - 1 hr 15 min - Moment Musicaux 4 and Fragments

Saturday, May 22, 2010

5 hrs 10 min, 5 items

Debussy - 1 hr 20 min

Sight-reading - 35 min - Handel 13, Bach 2.1, Mozart 8.2, Poulenc 3, Brahms 2, Faure 1

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr 20 min - figure out how to play 12-tuplet

Bach - 1 hr - work backwards

Villa-Lobos 3 - 55 min - work on last couple pages very slowly

Friday, May 21, 2010

3 hrs 45 min, 4 items

Beethoven 2 - 70 min - E = 60, Finger first 3 pages

Bach - 50 min - Isolate voices in fugue on first page and analyze keys; continue striving for atmosphere and line in prelude

Villa-Lobos 3 - 1 hr - E = 70-80, skip middle section, make sense of syncopations

Rachmaninoff - 45 min

Goals:

Beethoven 1 - Read through whole movement at q = 44

Beethoven 2 - work on reading through slowly

Bach Fugue - Isolate voices and play up to cadence on second page

Bach Prelude - continue polishing, maintain long lines

Debussy - Work on playing through continuously at slow tempo; check that all fast figurations make sense

Villa-Lobos 3 - Try playing through at slow tempo

Thursday, May 20, 2010

6 hrs 20 min, 6 items

Beethoven 1 - 1.5 hr - q = 40 - work backwards to beginning. play through beginning to end with metronome

Bach - 1 hr - continue decomposing fugue and adding fingering; up to bottom of first page; continue interpreting prelude, particularly the rolled chords

Sight-reading - 1 hr min - Schubert 23, Mozart 8.1, Handel 12 (finished), Bach 1.3, Brahms 1, Poulenc 1 and 2

Rachmaninoff - 50 min - Moment Musicaux 3 and 4, Fragments

Debussy - 1 hr - continue debunking rhythms, slow practice on certain sections

Villa-Lobos 3 - 1 hr

Goals:

Beethoven 1 - Read through movement slowly, relaxed and with correct fingering

Bach - read through and finger more; decompose score further

Debussy - Continue debunking fast figurations

Villa-Lobos 3 - learn recap of A section

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

4 hrs 45 min, 5 items

Beethoven 4 - 1 hr - read through and add in fingering

Bach - 1 hr - Play through fugue and add fingering; play through prelude and polish, add dynamics

Villa-Lobos 3 - 1 hr - Work on fingering and rhythm of C section

Debussy - 1 hr - Work on making sense of fast figurations

Sightreading - 45 min - Erbarme Dich, Sheep may Safely Graze, Liebermann nocturne 2, Schubert 2, Handel 13

Repertoire for MTNA competition

Repertoire for MTNA competition

Beethoven I. Allegro - 7 min

Chopin Barcarolle - 9 min

Debussy Etude #11 pour les arpeges composes - 5 min

Villa-Lobos Ciclo Brasiliero III. Festa no Sertao - 5 min

Total: approx. 26-28 min

Monday, May 17, 2010

4 hours, 2 items

Prepare music for funeral prelude - 3 hrs - Bach, Brahms, Griffes

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr 5 min

Saturday, May 15, 2010

3 hrs 5 min, 5 items

Warm up - 40 min - Q=120 N minor scales; Q=144 c minor scale

Sightreading - 35 min - Schubert 22, Handel 11, Mozart 7.2, Bach 1.2, Liebermann 5

Chopin, Moszkowski, Rachmaninoff - 30 min


Beethoven 1 and 2
- 60 min

Debussy - 20 min

Friday, May 14, 2010

5 hrs 10 min, 8 items

Warmup - 45 min - q=144, Mm arpeggios; polish CM and cm

Sightreading - 20 min - Schubert 21, Handel 10, Mozart finish variations, Bach first flute sonata

Beethoven 1 - 1 hr - Work backwards

Bach - 45 min - Prelude: fingering and line; Fugue: shaping the subject and expo.

Debussy -1 hr - continue fingering to end

Villa-Lobos 1, 2, 3 - 1 hr 20 min - Work on coordinating rhythm of first 2-3 pages of 3rd mvt; read 2nd, play through 1st

Goals:

-Be able to play through Beethoven 1 at slow tempo

-Make sure fingering is secure for Bach Prelude

-Debussy Etude continue fingering where left off

-Villa-Lobos 3 - Work on making rhythmic sense of A section. Work on notes of B section

Long term summer goal
-Q = 144, Scales and Arpeggios

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

2.5 hrs, 5 items

Warmup - 30 min - Major scales

Villa-Lobos 3 - 30 min

Moszkowski - 35 min

Debussy - 35 min

Rachmaninoff - 20 min

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

3 hrs, 4 items

Warmup - 1 hr - 5 remaining NHM minor scales, Schubert 19, Handel 8, Mozart more variations, Liebermann 5

Villa-Lobos 1 - 50 min

Beethoven 1 and 3 - 70 min

Monday, May 10, 2010

3 hrs 55 min, 9 items

Rachmaninoff Fragments - 25 min

Debussy etude #11 - 30 min

Moszkowski etude - 25 min

Beethoven 2 scherzo - 40 min

Beethoven 1 - 50 min

Scales - 10 min

Bach - 35 min

Villa-Lobos 1 and 3 - 20 min

Sunday, May 9, 2010

1 hr 45 min, 3 items

Warm up - 45 min - 6 NHM minor scales

Sightreading - 15 min

Bach - 20 min

Villa-Lobos 3 - 25 min

Saturday, May 8, 2010

2 hrs 40 min, 4 items

1 hr - Warm up - major scales w/C major fingering, M/m arpeggios w/C major fingering

20 min - Sightreading - Schubert #18, Handel #7, Mozart 6 II,

45 min - Beethoven 1 - fingering for RH for first two pages

35 min - Debussy - fingering for first two pages

50 min, 2 items

Friday, May 7, 2010

50 min - Read through a few pages of Bach and Villa-Lobos

RECITAL DONE YAY! New Repertoire!

Audition/Recital Repertoire

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in Eb minor WTC I (10 min)

Beethoven - Sonata Op. 31 no. 3 (24 min)

Chopin - Barcarolle op. 60 (continuing) (9 min)

Moszkowski - Etude #9 in d minor (octaves)

Debussy - Etude #11 pour les arpeges composes (4.5 min)

Rachmaninoff - Fragments

Villa-Lobos - Ciclo-Brasilieras (20 min)

2 hrs 5 min, 2 items

Thursday, May 6, 2010

45 min - Read through exposition of Beethoven

1 hr 20 min - Read through Debussy