Friday, January 18, 2013

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013

QUOTE:
"All the sounds on the earth are like music."
AUTHOR: Oscar Hammerstein
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is all around us; the wind, ocean pulse, and from the birds 
  that sing….if you only listen for it.”













COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY


The Seasons
Played by pianist Emile Naoumoff
GENERAL MUSIC
01.  MUSICAL: MY FAIR LADY
........a.  SHORT REVIEW OF WHAT WE HAD ALREADY VIEWED
........b.  CONTINUED WITH THE FILM
........c.  DISCUSSED THE SONG LYRICS and HOW, IN A MUSICAL, THE LYRICS OF THE SONGS                    HELP TELL THE STORY and ALSO HELP THE AUDIENCE UNDERSTAND THE                                    PERSONALITIES OF THE THE MAIN CHARACTERS

ADV. STRINGS
01.  ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL
02.  PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (SIGHT READING)

BEG. STRINGS 
01.  WARM-UP 
........a.  FIRST FINGER SHIFTING DO-RE-MI-FA/FA-MI-RE-DO (0-1-1-1/-1-1-1-0) ON EACH STRING
02.  SONG:  TWINKLE (BY MEMORY)
........a.   PLAYED ON STRINGS D and A (BOW UH) and G and D (BOW LH) BOWING "HUCK-LE-BER-                 RY HOUND DOG" RHYTHM
..............1)  USED THE SAME AMOUNT OF BOW FOR EACH NOTE NECESSITATING BOW SPEED                        CHANGES
03.  SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW
.........a.  REVIEWED A SPECIFIC PASSAGE FOR COUNTING and FOR BOWING
..............1)  WORKED ON BOW PROPORTIONING
.........b.  PLAYED THE SONG FROM THE BEGINNING