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Thursday, January 24, 2013

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013

QUOTE:
“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”
AUTHOR: Richard Wagner
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The audience rarely knows of all the time and effort that goes into 
  the production of an art form.”









COMPOSER
DEBUSSY


Clair de Lune 
(Originally written for the piano.)

Clair de Lune
(A deleted scene from Disney's "Fantasia"
Stokowsky arrangement)
Stokowsky conducts his own arrangement of Clair de Lune


Clair de Lune
 Played by violinist David Oistrakh
http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/debussy-claire-de-lune-played-by-van.html
http://wheredihearthat.blogspot.com/2011/09/clair-de-lune.html



PERIODS 1 and 2:
01.  VIOLIN: BOWING ON VIOLIN
........a.  TIGHTENING and LOOSING BOW
........b.  BOW LEVELS ON VIOLIN 
.............1)  SILENT BOW ROCKING
.............2)  SPRING OF BOW AT EACH MAIN BOW LEVEL 4X
.........c. BOWING MIDDLE to TIP USING ELBOW (UPPER HALF of BOW) 4X EACH STRING
.............1)  EXPLANATION OF DOWN and UP BOWS
.............2)  SILENT DOWN and UP MOVEMENTS WITHOUT VIOLIN
.........d.  BOWING 4X EACH STRING
.........e.  OPEN STRING SONG "PUMPED UP KICKS" (HARMONY: GG/DD/AA/EE)
...............1)  STUDENTS BOW UH (UPPER HALF OF BOW) TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT
...............2)  AS STUDENTS PRACTICE WITH MUSIC TEACHER CHECKS EACH STUDENT AS TO                           PROPER BOW TECHNIQUE.
.........f.  OPEN STRING SONG "BLAST OFF" USING NOTE READING (TO CONTINUE TOMORROW)

PERIOD 3:
01.  VIOLIN: LEFT PIZZICATO CYCLE OF STRINGS
........a.  REVIEWED WATCHING THE CONDUCTOR DIRECTIONS
........b.  LEFT THUMB PLACED AT CURVE OF THE VIOLIN NECK
........c.  PAD OF THE LEFT POINTER FINGER DEPRESSES EACH STRING 8X WITH A SPRING                       ACTION
........d.  REPEAT ABOVE DIRECTIONS and PULL THE STRING TO THE RIGHT TO PLUCK THE                      STRING
.............1)  PLUCKED EACH STRING 4X (DEPRESSING THE STRING DOWN BEFORE PLUCKING                         EACH TIME)
........e.  OPEN STRING SONG "CRIPPLE CREEK"
..............1)  REVIEWED NOTE NAMES and RELATED NOTES TO THE OPEN STRINGS
..............2)  SANG NOTE NAMES AGAINST RECORDED ACCOMPANIMENT
..............3)  REPEATED THE ABOVE DIRECTIONS and ADDED RIGHT HAND PIZZICATO

ADV. STRINGS
01.  PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN 
........a.  WORKED ON ANOTHER SPECIFIC PASSAGE TO GET SPEED
02.  STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
03.  WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL

BEG. STRINGS 
01.  WARM-UP 
........a.  OPEN STRING SCALES SLURRING 2 NOTES ON A SINGLE WHOLE BOW (WB)
........b.  OPEN STRING SCALES SLURRING 2 NOTES AT THE LH and UH OF THE BOW IN                              PREPARATION TO SLUR 4 NOTES ON A BOW
04.  SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW
.........a.  REVIEWED A SPECIFIC PASSAGE FOR COUNTING and FOR BOWING
..............1) PULLED APART THE FIRST FEW PHRASES INTRICATELY FOR PROPER BOWING,                             ARTICULATION, and COUNTING
..............2)  DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER ARTICULATION and  HOW IT CAN BE                            USED TO HIDE MANY PLAYING MISTAKES and ERRORS