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Monday, December 31, 2012
VIOLIN: SOME OF MY FAVORITE VIOLIN LINKS
These links are not in any particular order:
http://www.theviolinsite.com/
http://www.violinonline.com/
http://www.playmusic.org/string/more/moreviolin.html
http://www.toddehle.com/
http://www.alfstudios.com
http://www.thestrad.com/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Looking_after_your_fiddle/
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Violin-2164/2009/5/Violin-Vibrato-2.htm
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fiddle
http://letsplayviolin.net/?page=tools/pitchreading
http://www.cheshire.k12.ct.us/dodd2/teachers/jfroyce/
http://www.stringsmagazine.com/
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/r-muel/stringed/pedpaper.html
http://www.theviolincase.com/
http://www.violinwizard.com/
http://letsplayviolin.net/?page=tools/dictionary
http://www.nagyvaryviolins.com/mystique_and_intrigue_of_the_stradivarius.html
http://www.wps.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
http://www.springersmusic.co.uk/Library/Violin%20collection%20P2.htm
http://www.stringpedagogy.com/
http://www.harmonie.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin
http://violinmasterclass.com/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-stradivari
http://www.fiddleforum.com/
http://oprescuraul.blogspot.com/2009/05/violin-is-bowed-string-instrument-with.html
http://www.playmusic.org/string/index.html
http://www.violinmasterclass.com/
http://beststudentviolins.com/Home.html
http://home.cogeco.ca/~scottythefiddler/
http://www.swstrings.com/education/interiorComponents.jsp
http://www.swstrings.com/education/stringInfo.jsp
http://www.pohutukawa.com/orchestra/violin/left1/
http://www.violinrockstar.com/onlineviolintuner.html
http://www.swstrings.com/education/bowCare.jsp
http://www.swstrings.com/education/bowComponents.jsp
http://www.knilling.com/frama.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Violin
http://www.onlinetuningfork.com/
http://www.theviolincase.com/music/index.shtml
http://letsplayviolin.net/?page=tools/manuscript
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/artofviolin/artofviolin.html
http://derekmccormick.wordpress.com/the-violin/
http://www.sprengerviolins.com/e/violin_history.htm
http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/a/halloween.htm
http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/a/vsizes.htm
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355867&ca=Entertainment
http://www.musicaluniverse.com/
http://www.fritz-reuter.com/care/index.htm
http://www.fiddlehead.ca
http://www.wps.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
http://www.mrfiddle.com/
http://www.darolanger.com/teachingquestions.html
http://www.westcountryviolins.com/web_pages/violin.htm
http://blog.violinalchemist.com/
http://www.mrfiddle.com/ViolinFun/index.htm
http://www.violinist.com
http://www.music.indiana.edu/special_programs/sa/repertoire.shtml
http://www.joshuabell.com/
http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/instruments/violin/fingeringchart.html http://www.geocities.com/sailorneptune2001/history.html
http://www.violinmasterclass.com/
http://www.maestronet.com/
http://www.astaweb.com/
http://www.thestrad.com/
http://www.stringsmagazine.com
http://www.violinist.com/ http://www.vsa.to/
http://library.thinkquest.org/27178/en/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_violin
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/eustn/ho_1999.26.htm
http://www.j-krakenberger.org/english/indexeng.htm
http://www.astaweb.com/
http://suewidemark.com/viollink.htm
http://markoconnor.com
http://www.uvm.edu/~mhopkins/string/history/stringed/01.html
http://www.carl-flesch.de/
http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/
http://www.siegelproductions.ca/fiddlefarmers/violinists.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Galamian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Delay
http://www.cremona.u-net.com/
http://www.sharmusic.com/
http://suzukiassociation.org/
http://www.jose-sanchez-penzo.net/
http://www.allthingsstrings.com/
http://www.centrum.is/hansi/
http://beststudentviolins.com/terms.html
http://www.fanfaire.com/transitions/delay.html
http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/
http://www.theviolinsite.com/violin_music.html
http://www.violinwizard.com/
http://www.drbows.com/articles.html
http://www.johnsonstring.com
http://www.soundpostonline.com
http://library.thinkquest.org/27178/en/index.html
http://www.sheilascorner.com/bow.html
http://www.sphinxkids.org/Practice_Room.html
http://www.stringpedagogy.com/
http://www.uvm.edu/~mhopkins/Site%205/Home.html
http://www.swstrings.com/
http://www.stringsmagazine.com/leveltwo/YOURINSTRUMENT-65.asp
http://www.determan.net/michele/fiddle.htm
http://www.frontierfiddlers.ca/
http://www.sphinxkids.org/String_Instruments.html
http://www.kenmoreviolins.com/careandfeeding.htm
http://www.violinfromscratch.com/
http://vsl.co.at/en/70/3189/3190/5621.vsl
http://www.vermontviolins.com/selectingInstruments.htm
http://jaybuckey.com
http://www.simplyviolin.com/page3/page3.html
http://www.abrsm.org
http://twitter.com/theviolinblog
Friday, December 21, 2012
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012
QUOTE:
"The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music."
"The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music."
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“All the arts interweave each other: words can be made into art and
“All the arts interweave each other: words can be made into art and
music; art can be imitated by music.”
Performed by Van Cliburn in Moscow, 1962
Piano Concerto #1, Op. 23
Complete
At the Piano by Childe Hassam |
Performed by Evgenij Kissin with the Berlin Philarmoniker, 1988
Conducted by Karajan
Marguerite Gachet at the Piano by Van Gogh |
Thursday, December 20, 2012
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2012
QUOTE:
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”
COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY
"Sleeping Beauty"
Ballet Op. 66
Sleeping Beauty by Maxfield Parrish |
Soundtrack Movie 1959
"Sleeping Beauty"
Kirov Ballet 1989
Sleeping Beauty by Walter Crane |
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012
QUOTE:
"Play the music, not the instrument."
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An instrument is just the mechanism for the music inside you.”
COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY
"Play the music, not the instrument."
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An instrument is just the mechanism for the music inside you.”
COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY
"Swan Lake"
Op. 20 Full Suite
Swan Lake by Carlotta Edwards http://sharonssunlitmemories.blogspot.com/2012/07/carlotta-edwards.html |
Op. 20 Full Suite
Soundtrack to the movie "Black Swan" (2010)
"Swan Lake" Ballet
Performed by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev (1967)
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012
QUOTE:
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
AUTHOR: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a form of communication that everyone can understand.”
HERE IS A VERSION OF THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
WITH WORDS FOR CHILDREN BY CAPTAIN KANGAROO
http://gentlebirth.org/nutcracker/#Download
The story:
http://www.lpomusic.com/files/December%2017th_Nutcrackersmall.pdf
“Music is a form of communication that everyone can understand.”
Conducted by Micha Haran
"Nutcracker"
Complete
Complete
"Nutcracker Ballet"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/arts/dance/george-balanchines-the-nutcracker-at-lincoln-center.html?_r=0 |
at the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater
Design for the Imperial-era curtain of the Mariinsky Theatre that existed prior to 1914. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariinsky_Theatre |
"Nutcracker" Russian Dance: Rock Guitar Metal Version
HERE IS A VERSION OF THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
WITH WORDS FOR CHILDREN BY CAPTAIN KANGAROO
http://gentlebirth.org/nutcracker/#Download
Term: What is a SUITE?
As in the "Nutcracker," composers who had written operas or ballets which incorporated many long dance movements or songs often made arrangements of these in a shortened form for orchestra so that it could be played at concerts.
NEW INSTRUMENT:
Celesta (bell like sound) used in the "Nutcracker"
http://www.vsl.co.at/en/70/3196/3204/3207/5748.vsl |
The celesta (pronounced /sɨˈlɛstə/) or celeste (pronounced /sɨˈlɛst/) is a struck idiophone
operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano (four- or five-octave)
or of a large wooden music box (three-octave). The keys are connected to hammers which
strike a graduated set of metal (usually steel) plates suspended over wooden resonators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celesta
The story:
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by ETA Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker,
comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
EARLY SONGS PLAYED ON BOTH KEYBOARDS and RECORDERS
SONGS PLAYED ON THE RECORDER
CAN ALSO BE PLAYED ON THE KEYBOARD
and
VICE-VERSA
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"HOT CROSS BUNS"
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"MARY"
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"ODE TO JOY"
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"JINGLE BELLS"
MUSIC NOTATION
TREBLE CLEF
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5
"TWINKLE"
PIANO FINGERINGS BELOW
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6
"CAMPTOWN RACES"
HOLIDAY RECORDER-KEYBOARD SONGS WORKSHEETS
DIRECTIONS
1.WRITE NOTE NAMES DOWN UNDERNEATH THE NOTES
(CAN USE "STEP-SKIP" TRIANGLES AS A GUIDE)
2. PLAY ON THE RECORDER
(MAY WANT TO ADD FINGERINGS)
3. PLAY ON THE KEYBOARD
(MAY WANT TO ADD FINGERINGS)
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"JOLLY OLD ST. NICK"
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"JINGLE BELLS"
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"DONDE ESTA SANTA CLAUS"
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"CHANUKKAH SONG"
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5
"JOY TO THE WORLD"
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"PEACE ROUND"
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"WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS"
***RECORDER FINGERING FOR F# IS: T1235 (NO 4)
ON THE KEYBOARD F# IS THE BLACK KEY JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE WHITE KEY "F"
Friday, December 14, 2012
BEGINNING RECORDER PACKET #3
RECORDER BY
READING MUSIC NOTATION
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