MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013

QUOTE:
“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.”

AUTHOR: Frederick Delius

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Its more fun to create something yourself then to create something yourself 

  then to have someone else create it for you.”

COMPOSER
DEBUSSY

DEBUSSY PLAYS DEBUSSY:

ARABESQUE #2

(Recorded from a piano roll)

This is a player piano with a roll:

This what the roll looks like up close:

ARABESQUE: In music it is an ornate, whimsical composition especially for piano.

Arabesque in Art

Escher Circle Limit III 

GENERAL MUSIC (A NEW SEMESTER):

01.  INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS
........a.  ENTERING and EXISTING PROCEDURES
........b.  CLASS ROOM GENERAL PROCEDURES 
........c.  FOLDERS FOR CLASS WORK
........d.  PASSED OUT RULES WORKSHEETS
........e.  DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT WILL BE COVERED IN THIS CLASS
........f.  BEHAVIOR EXPECTATIONS and TEAMWORK

ADV. STRINGS

01.  INFORMATION GIVEN OUT CONCERNING FIELD TRIP NEXT WEEK TO WALT DISNEY HALL          IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES TO HEAR THE LA PHILHARMONIC FEBRUARY 7TH

........a.  PASSED OUT INFORMATION SHEETS GIVEN TO ME BY MR. ROA and EXPLAINED WHAT                  IT SAID

........b.  PASSED OUT PERMISSION SLIPS THAT NEED TO BE TURNED IN BY THIS FRIDAY IN                        ORDER TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND

........c.  REVIEWED THAT ALL SCHOOL WORK MISSED BY ATTENDING THIS FIELD TRIP MUST                  BE MADE UP 

........d.  INFORMED STUDENTS THAT THEIR OTHER TEACHERS CAN ASK THAT STUDENTS                        MISSING WORK NOT BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND SO ALL STUDENTS NEED TO GET ANY                  MISSING WORK TURNED IN

02.  PREPARED A PRESENTATION ON "THE FIREBIRD" BY IGOR STRAVINSKY TO SHOW THE             CLASS IN PREPARATION FOR THE FIELD TRIP AS THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE             PERFORMED  SEE:  http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/stravinsky-firebird-suite-1919.html

BEG. STRINGS

01.   REVIEWED INFORMATION GIVEN OUT CONCERNING FIELD TRIP NEXT WEEK TO WALT               DISNEY HALL IN

        DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES TO HEAR THE LA PHILHARMONIC FEBRUARY 7TH

........a.  PASSED OUT THE REMAINDER OF INFORMATION SHEETS GIVEN TO ME BY MR. ROA                    FOR THOSE WHO NEEDED THEM

........b.  PASSED OUT THE REMAINDER OF THE PERMISSION SLIPS THAT NEED TO BE TURNED                  IN BY THIS FRIDAY IN ORDER TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND

........c.  COLLECTED COMPLETED PERMISSION SLIPS

........d.  REVIEWED THAT ALL SCHOOL WORK MISSED BY ATTENDING THIS FIELD TRIP MUST                BE MADE UP 

........e.  INFORMED STUDENTS THAT THEIR OTHER TEACHERS CAN ASK THAT STUDENTS                         MISSING WORK  NOT BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND SO ALL STUDENTS NEED TO GET ANY                 MISSING WORK TURNED IN

02.  PREPARED A PRESENTATION ON "THE FIREBIRD" BY IGOR STRAVINSKY TO SHOW THE             CLASS IN PREPARATION FOR THE FIELD TRIP AS THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE             PERFORMED  SEE: http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/stravinsky-firebird-suite-1919.html