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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012

QUOTE:
“Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
AUTHOR: John Philip Sousa
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The style of jazz is meant to be felt through movement; that is what 
  attracts people to it.”















COMPOSER
HILDEGARD


Canticles of Ecstacy

Canticle: A song or chant, especially a non metrical hymn with words taken from a biblical text other than from the Book of Psalms.

GENERAL MUSIC
01.  KEYBOARD WORKSHEETS
........a.  HANDED OUT NEW KEYBOARD WORKSHEETS TO START AFTER OTHERS ARE FINISHED
..............1)  THESE WORKSHEETS DEAL WITH  THE BLACK KEYS (SHARPS and FLATS)
02.  NET CART COMPUTER MUSIC LESSON
........a.  GAVE OUT DIRECTIONS ON COMPUTER PROCEDURES
..............1)  LOGGING INTO GOOGLE DOCS
..............2)  CREATING A DOCUMENT
..............3)  GIVING THE DOCUMENT A TITLE
..............4)  HOW TO LOOK FOR LINKS
........b.  DISCUSSED THE OVERALL ASSIGNMENT SHOWING NOTES I TOOK (SEE BELOW)


MOST STUDENTS WILL SHARE COMPUTERS WITH A PARTNER 


BE SURE TO SHUT COMPUTERS OFF AND CONNECT COMPUTERS WHEN PUTTING THEM AWAY 
SO AS NOT TO RUN THE BATTERIES DOWN

DIRECTIONS:

1) SIGN-IN TO GOOGLE DOCS
   ID # from your ID card
2) HIT “CREATE”
3) HIT “DOCUMENT”
4) HIT “FILE”
5) HIT “RENAME” ADD YOUR NAME AS THE TITLE 
6) HIT “OKAY”
7) ADD TITLE and YOUR NAME TO TOP OF PAGE
EXAMPLE: “HOW TO MAKE A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT BY YOUR NAME
8) CREATE THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS AND ADD

INFORMATION:
01. LINKS
02. INSTRUMENT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO MAKE
03. INGREDIENTS/TOOLS YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE THE INSTRUMENT
04. SEQUENTIAL DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING THE INSTRUMENT
05. EXPLAIN HOW THE INSTRUMENT MAKES SOUNDS and HOW THE INSTRUMENT IS PLAYED?
06. GIVE YOUR INSTRUMENT A NAME
07. CLASSIFY WHAT CATEGORY YOU WOULD PLACE THIS INSTRUMENT IN?

AFTER FINISHING THE WRITTEN PORTION, MAKE THE INSTRUMENT AT HOME and 
BE PREPARED TO DEMONSTRATE IT TO THE CLASS


IF POSSIBLE A PICTURE CAN BE TAKEN OF IT TO PLACE INTO THIS REPORT

THE FINISHED REPORT (PROOFREAD TO CORRECT PUNCTUATION, GRAMMAR, SPELLING ERRORS, ETC.) 
IS TO BE SENT TO ME (sjacobson@ewcsd.org) FROM YOUR GOOGLE DOCS 

++++++STUDENTS MAY WORK ALONE or WITH A PARTNER++++++

++++++SOME REPORTS WILL BE PLACED ONTO MY BLOG++++++

ADV.  STRINGS
01.  ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL 
........a.  PASSAGE 1 2 3+ 0 1 0 3+ 2 PRACTICED FOR SPEED (KEEP 3+ FINGER DOWN WHILE THE BOW CROSSES  
              THE STRINGS)
02.  SILVER BELLS
........a.  REVIEWED A FEW DIRECTIONS and EXPLAINED THE TERM "DIVISI" (NOTES WRITTEN THAT LOOK
              LIKE DOUBLE STOPS BUT ARE ACTUALLY DIVIDED BY PARTNERS ON EACH MUSIC STAND)
              1) THE PERSON SITTING ON THE RIGHT PLAYS THE HIGHER NOTE 
              2) THE PERSON ON THE LEFT PLAYS THE LOWER NOTE
.........b.  SIGHT READ THROUGH 


BEG. STRING
01. BOW WARM-UP  CYCLE OF STRINGS LIFTED BOWS (UH) 4X EACH STRING USING "UP" BOWS
02. NO HOLLY FOR MISS QUINN
.......a.  REVIEWED COUNTING and MUSICAL ROAD SIGNS
.......b.  SIGHT READ THROUGH
03.  "MARY" 0 1 2 SONG
............1)  REVIEW SONG BY FINGER NUMBERS
............2)  CLASS SINGS THE NUMBERS AND RIGHT HAND PIZZICATOS ON EACH STRING FIRST IN "GUITAR"
                  then IN REGULAR POSITION
............3)  CLASS REPEATS ABOVE EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE READY USE REGULAR VIOLIN POSITION

............4)  THOSE WHO HAVE THE LEFT HAND MEMORIZED START TO USE THE BOW (UH) INSTEAD OF PIZZ.