"Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent."
AUTHOR: Victor Hugo
in a way that words can never express."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Feelings can be communicated through musicin a way that words can never express."
COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY
Conductor: Fedoseyev
Francesca da Rimini
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Paolo and Francesca da Rimini |
 |
Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatestascene
by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
|
 |
| Francesca da Rimini was an Italian noblewoman. Unhappily married, she fell in love with her brother-in-law. When her husband learned of the affair, he murdered his wife and brother, a tragedy recounted in Dante's Inferno. |
GENERAL MUSIC
PERIODS 1 and 2:
01. VIOLIN PARTS/DEMONSTRATION
.......a. REVIEWED and QUIZZED PARTS OF THE INSTRUMENT
.......b. DISCUSSED IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPER LEFT VIOLIN HOLD and SHOULDER REST
.......c. STUDENTS TRIED OUT HOLDING THE VIOLIN WITH and WITHOUT THE SHOULDER REST
PERIOD 3:
........a. STUDENTS TO READ HANDOUT INFORMATION ON THE COMPOSER JOSEPH HAYDN AND FIND THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ASKED ON THE LAST TWO PAGES (continued)
ADV. STRINGS
01. PARADISE
02. STARTED MY HEART GOES ON
PERIODS 1 and 2:
01. VIOLIN PARTS/DEMONSTRATION
.......a. REVIEWED and QUIZZED PARTS OF THE INSTRUMENT
.......b. DISCUSSED IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPER LEFT VIOLIN HOLD and SHOULDER REST
.......c. STUDENTS TRIED OUT HOLDING THE VIOLIN WITH and WITHOUT THE SHOULDER REST
PERIOD 3:
01. COMPOSER HAYDN DISCUSSION and TIME FRAME OF HIS LIFE (WATCHED HAYDN VIDEOS ON MY BLOG: http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/haydn-biography-and-information.html)
02. COMPOSER WORKSHEET (50 OPEN BOOK FILL-IN and SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS)........a. STUDENTS TO READ HANDOUT INFORMATION ON THE COMPOSER JOSEPH HAYDN AND FIND THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ASKED ON THE LAST TWO PAGES (continued)
ADV. STRINGS
01. PARADISE
02. STARTED MY HEART GOES ON
BEG. STRINGS
01. WARM-UP
........a. SHIFTING THE 1ST FINGER (FULL SHIFT MOVING FINGER and THUMB TOGETHER)
.............1) UP: DO-RE-MI (0 1-1)
.............2) DOWN: MI-RE-DO (1-1 0)
...................a) FINGER NEVER LOSES CONTACT WITH THE STRING DURING THE SHIFT
...................b) SHIFT SHOULD BE MADE SLOWLY HEARING ALL THE SOUNDS DURING THE SLIDE PROCESS (A "SLURPY" TYPE SOUND (AS THE SHIFTING SPEED LEARNS TO BE CONTROLLED THE "SLURPY" SOUND WILL NOT BE AS PRONOUNCED and WILL BE ABLE TO BE CONTROLLED AS TO WHAT THE PLAYER MUSICALLY INTENDS)
02. SONG: TWINKLE (BY ROTE)
........a. PLAYED ON STRINGS D and A (BOW UH) and G and D (BOW LH)
03. SONG: PARADISE (HARMONY)
........a. DISCUSSED COUNTING WHOLE/HALF/DOTTED HALF NOTES
..............1) REVIEWED THE "RULE OF THE DOT TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF A NOTE":
"A dot is half the value of the note it sits on."
..............2) REVIEWED TIED NOTES
.........b. REVIEWED NOTE NAMES OF TREBLE and BASS CLEF
.........c. PLAYED THROUGH THE SONG WITH TEACHER TRACKING HELP
04. SONG: SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW (MELODY)