Monday, January 30, 2012

2 hrs 30 min,

Busoni


Beethoven 1
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90 min

Rzewski


Beethoven 1
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40 min

Brahms 2
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20 min

2 hrs 40 min, 3 items

Busoni - trills

Andrew's music
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1 hr

Beethoven 1
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1 hr 40 min

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Busoni


Reinecke 2 + 3
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60 min

Friday, January 27, 2012

4 hrs 15 min, 5 items

Busoni - trills

Beethoven 1 - 3rd to last page, hands separately, last two pages to end, h = 60
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1 hr 30 min

Brahms 2
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45 min

Reinecke 3


Andrew's music
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2 hrs

Thursday, January 26, 2012

4 hrs, 4 items

Busoni - Trills bottom of second page

Reinecke 3 - last 2 pages
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60 min

Reinecke 3
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30 min

Brahms 2 - super legato, staccato, hands separately

Milhaud 2 - hand balance, hands separately, slow
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2 hrs 30 min

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

6 hrs 10 min, 8 items

Busoni - trills

Brahms 2 - work on pp colors
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50 min

Beethoven 1 - Recap, hands separately and together at different speeds;
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1 hr 15 min

Rzewski

Andrew's music
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2.5 hrs

Rzewski - hear the parts more clearly, know what my hands are doing in opening

Rachmaninoff - work on recap hands separately

Liszt - run through

Milhaud 2
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1 hr 35 min

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

4 hrs, 6 items

Busoni - trills

Beethoven - Coda, memorize, work on hands separately
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1 hr 40 min

Andrew's music
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20 min

Rzewski
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1 hr

Milhaud 2

Reinecke 3
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1 hr

3 hrs, 4 items

Monday, Jan 23

Busoni -

Katie's vocal stuff
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1.5 hrs

Rachmaninoff
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30 min

Andrew's vocal stuff
1.5 hrs

Sunday, January 22, 2012

2 hrs, 4 items

Busoni - Trills exercise from end backwards, first 8 measures of last page

Andrew's music
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60 min

Rachmaninoff - memory work

Milhaud 2 - first page triads
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60 min

Saturday, January 21, 2012

3 hrs, 3 items

Busoni - play through from beginning to end
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25 min

Rachmaninoff - name and group phrases, poetically
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2 hrs

Rzewski - q = 76
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35 min

Friday, January 20, 2012

4 hrs 40 min, 4 items

Milhaud 1


Reinecke 1
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1 hr 40 min

Rachmaninoff
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1 hr 40 min

Reading through Mower and vocal music
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1 hr 20 min

Thursday, January 19, 2012

4 hours, 6 items

Busoni - up to last system LH

Brahms 2 - need to work on control and color
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1 hr

Milhaud 1 - metronome q = 50


Rachmaninoff -  metronome q= 60


Rzewski - metronome q = 80


Beethoven 1 - think about technique as if Busoni
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3 hrs

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

4 hrs 20 min, 6 items

Busoni - 2 more measures

Milhaud 1 - 32nd note section
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1 hr

Beethoven 1 - memorize development and part of false recap
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1 hr 40 min

Brahms 2
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20 min

Rachmaninoff - fix exposition

Rzewski - change fingering of opening
1 hr 20 min

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

4 hrs 25 min, 7 items

Busoni - 7 more measures

Reinecke 1 -
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1 hr 40 min

Rachmaninoff
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1 hr 40 min

Brahms 2
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20 min

Rzewski - act more

Milhaud 1

Beethoven 1 - think about movements more carefully
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45 min

Monday, January 16, 2012

5 hrs, 4 items

Busoni - 2 more measures

Reinecke 1 - pages 1-4
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2 hrs

Rzewski - work on memory and flow
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1.5 hrs

Beethoven 1 - memorize exposition, think about harmonies
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1.5 hrs

Sunday, January 15, 2012

3 hrs, 2 items

Brahms 2 - think about dynamics and pacing
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1 hr 10 min

Rzewski - memorize, play through beginning to end
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1 hr 50 min

Saturday, January 14, 2012

4 hrs, 5 items

Busoni - a few more measures; make sure fingers are not tense

Rzewski - test memory up to middle of page 2
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2 hrs 30 min

Chopin - q = 120 hear every note and where the notes are going
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45 min

Milhaud 3 - fingering first page and last page

Rachmaninoff - revise fingering
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45 min

1 hr 10 min, 2 items

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13


Busoni - a few more measures

Chopin - think less etude-ly
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70 min

Thursday, January 12, 2012

3 hrs 30 min, 4 items

Busoni - 2 more measures

Rzewski - be able to play for memory up to middle of page 2 both hands; practiced in sections
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2 hrs

Brahms 2 - hear harmonic changes...need to transfer fingerings and think about harmonies

Rachmaninoff - memorize coda hands separately
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1 hr 30 min

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

3 hrs 50 min, 6 items

Busoni - double note silent change of fingering exercise; fingering and method practice for three more measures

Rachmaninoff - memorize A section of recapitulation

Brahms 2 - read through, implement ideas of pacing, dynamics, voicing presence
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2 hrs 10 min

Milhaud 2 - fingering for 3 more pages

Rzewski - memorize p. 2 to 3
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1 hr

Rachmaninoff - think narratively
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40 min

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

3 hrs 15 min, 5 items

Busoni - same exercise, speed, make sure fingertips touch keys before depressing
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15 min

Milhaud 2 - fingering for p. 2

Rzewski - memorize first page (at least the right hand); play sections with metronome; work on metronome for top of p. 2; should check metronome and memory simultaneously next time
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2 hrs

Rachmaninoff - memorize the rest of the development hands separately
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1 hr

Brahms 2 - study score and think about phrasing and form

Monday, January 9, 2012

4 hrs 55 min, 7 items

Busoni - Work on first 4 bars of silent fingering double notes etude; emphasizing "hearing" the notes in each hand distinctly

Rachmaninoff - review. memorize development hands separately

Rzweski - memorize first half of first page
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2 hrs

Liszt - middle section with repeated notes (3x) and arpeggiated LH accompaniment; memorize hand separately
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45 min

Chopin - let the ear guide the hands

Beethoven 1 - memorize first half of exposition of allegro
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1 hr 50 min

Milhaud 2 - fingering for page 1
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20 min

2 hrs, 2 items

SUNDAY, JAN 8, 2012

Rachmaninoff - memorize RH and LH separately for exposition (first two pages)

Rzweski - work on memorizing last page and end of second page

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Rzewski - memorize p. 3, second system to end; analyzed intervals and symmetry; next time I should memorize hands separately and count; have I discovered all the symmetries and patterns yet? also I need to decide on solid groupings

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Liszt - staccato double note chords in right hand. Is more bounce a good thing?

Chopin - need to work on being able to play each hand separately for memory

Events 2011

1/19: Recital in Staunton

1/22: FSU Audition

1/28-29: Northwestern Audition

2/4: Indiana Audition

2/5: CCM Audition

2/12: JMU Piano Recital

2/21: UMKC Audition

2/26: Martha's Recital

3/4-5: NATS competition

4/2: Senior Composition Recital

4/17: Cov-Pres Performing Arts Concert

4/23: Audrey's Recital

4/29: Ryan's Recital

5/1: Collaborative Song Recital

5/30: Doebeln Concert

6/11: Beggar's Opera Premiere in Middle Saxony Theater

6/13: Beggar's Opera #2 in Lauenstein

6/18: Beggar's Opera #3 in Doebeln

6/19: Beggar's Opera #4 in Bieberstein Castle

7/2: Wolf Lieder concert in Zwickau

7/3: Wolf Lieder concert in Petrikirche