“Talent is only the starting point.”
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Talent means nothing without a good work ethic and a good attitude.”
Pan and Syrinx
by
Lewis Gidley
The nymph Syrinx ran
From Goat-footed Pan,
Who sought the coy beauty to gain;
Through grove, over lawn,
Like a startled fawn,
In the haunts of the shepherd swain.
Her long yellow hair,
From her forehead flair;
Stream’d back, as she hasten’d her flight,
Like a cloud that flies
Through the wind-swept skies,
or a swift comet’s trail of light.
Large heat-drops bedew’d
Her brow, when the flood
Of Ladon she reach’d, which arrested,
With its silver sheet,
Her uncertain feet
Whose, speed so rudely been tested.
On each Naiad sister
She call’d, to assist her,
Thus asking them succor to give her;
“O grant me escape,
“By changing my shape,
“Ye Nymphs of the fountain and river!”
They heard, and the prize
Was snatch’d from the eyes
Of Pan, at the end of the race;
For, greatly dismay’d,
He seized not the maid,
But only some reeds in her place.
“Ah, cheat!” then he cried;
But the reeds replied,
With murmurs, reproving his error;
And still as they trembled,
Their shaking resembled
The shuddering emotion of terror.
But some consolation,
To soothe his vexation,
Pan found in a pipe which he made
Of the reeds, to blow
On whose wax-join’d row,
Was his solace in grot and glade.
"Talent means nothing without a good work ethic and a good attitude.”
COMPOSER
DEBUSSY
DEBUSSY
for solo flute
(Performed by Emmanuel Pahud)
Syrinx into a Reed or Pane e Siringa, Book I, illustration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832
In Greek mythology the Syrinx was an Arcadian nymph, who being pursued by Pan, fled into the river Ladon, and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed from which Pan then made his flute.
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| Pan Flute |
| English poet John Keats (1795-1821) tells the story of Pan and Syrinx |
So did he feel who pulled the bough
That we might look into a forest wide, Telling us how fair trembling Syrinx fled Arcadian Pan, with such a fearful dread. Poor nymph- poor Pan- how he did weep to find
Nought but a lovely sighing of the wind
Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain, Full of sweet desolation, balmy pain. |
GENERAL MUSIC:
01. REVIEW OF SILLY RULES WORKSHEET QUESTIONS 8-12
02. ECHO CLAPPING and MUSIC ELEMENTS OF PULSE and RHYTHM REVIEW
03. ECHO CLAPPING RHYTHM TO FOR CLASSROOM ATTENTION
........a. INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMBOL OF THE QUARTER NOTE
........b. DEFINITION OF TERMS MEASURE and BARLINE
04. EXPLANATION OF USE OF GRAVITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF A STEADY PULSE
05. RECORDER RULES TO TUNE OF "THE BEAT GOES ON" WITH BODY PERCUSSION ADDED TO DISPLAY THE MUSICAL FORM
........b. DEFINITION OF TERMS MEASURE and BARLINE
04. EXPLANATION OF USE OF GRAVITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF A STEADY PULSE
05. RECORDER RULES TO TUNE OF "THE BEAT GOES ON" WITH BODY PERCUSSION ADDED TO DISPLAY THE MUSICAL FORM
ADV. STRINGS
01. ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL
........a. EXTRA PRACTICE ON THE ENDING RHYTHMIC PASSAGE
02. YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME
........a. DISCUSSION OF SUBDIVIDING BEATS IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE COUNTING
........a. EXTRA PRACTICE ON THE ENDING RHYTHMIC PASSAGE
02. YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME
........a. DISCUSSION OF SUBDIVIDING BEATS IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE COUNTING
BEG. STRINGS
01. SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW (ADVANCE PART-MELODY)
.......a. PRACTICED A PASSAGE IN DETAIL
.......b. PLAYED THE ENTIRE PIECE FOR CONTINUITY
.......a. PRACTICED A PASSAGE IN DETAIL
.......b. PLAYED THE ENTIRE PIECE FOR CONTINUITY