Term 2 Week 4: Nov 19th - Nov 23rd 2012

Topic: Practice quiz for the Music Analysis Written Test!

• Theory Class:

1. Nov 20th - We were informed by Mr.John that we will be having a music analysis written test by Thursday, so we had a practice quiz by answering the questions about the symbols and notations written in a music sheet. It was quite hard because there were lots of many new musical notation that I've never seen before, such as the c clef symbol and its pitches, and the meaning of the symbol 'sfz,,,' which means sforzando. 

2. Nov 21st - Since tomorrow is the assessment day, we've had another practice quiz in oral, because we didn't have any music sheet to learn the notations and symbols. Yet, Mr. John still taught us some more notations, such as the long legato, crescendo, decrescendo, accents, slur, staccato and many other notations that either I've seen before, or the ones that I've never met before,

3. Nov 22nd - Actually today's supposed to be the assessment day for the written analysis test, but Mr.John kindly postponed the test into next week Tuesday. It was a good news for me, because this week I had many other assessments to do from other subjects. 

• Instrument Class:

1. Nov 20th - In instrument class today I had another free time, so I played piano playing Schubert's Impromptu, and also learning other chords in guitar again from my friends who're learning guitar. It was fun because I had never learned guitar, and found it as a very interesting instrument these days.

2. Nov 21st - Today I played one of the suzuki #5 songs during the instrument class, because last week when I played the song, I wasn't quite good with it since it was the first time playing the new song. Since I had to improve my skills in playing the song, I've practiced playing it slowly at first and trying to catch the melody.

3. Nov 22nd - I've played my Rondo Composition today because I knew that next next week is the performance day of my ABACA Composition. And since we have to memorize our melody during the assessment, I've started practicing from today so that I don't need to memorize the whole melody just before the assessment day.