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Friday, February 1, 2013

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013

QUOTE:
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Some artists can never rest until they are allowed to express themselves.”










COMPOSER
DEBUSSY


Nocturnes
Conductor: Charles Dutoit

Nocturne: 
This is a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
In music it is an instrumental composition of a
 dreamy or pensive character.

"Nocturne" by Nuncques

"Nocturne: Grey and Silver" by Whistler



GENERAL MUSIC
01.  COMPLETED OVERVIEW OF RULES
........a.  PASSED OUT SYLLABUS FOR STUDENTS TO READ and GET SIGNED BY PARENTS
02.  MUSICAL FORM and MATH IN THE SONG "THE BEAT GOES ON"
........a.  COUNTED THE AMOUNT OF QUARTER BEATS (PULSES) IN THE ENTIRE SONG
........b.  BEATS DIVIDED INTO MEMORABLE MUSICAL PATTERNS OR MELODY SECTIONS
........c.  BEATS WERE GRAFTED ON THE PAGE USING DIFFERENT COLORS FOR EACH MUSICAL               PATTERN
........d.  THE DIFFERENT PATTERNS EASILY MADE VISABLE THE MUSICAL FORM OF THE SONG 
             (INTRO/A/B/C/A/B/C/A/B/C/CODA)
........e.  THE SONG HAD AN INTRODUCTION (BEGINNING) MIDDLE and A "CODA" (END)
..............1)  A SONG HAS FORMAT LIKE A STORY IN A BOOK OR A MOVIE
..............2)   THERE IS A BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END (SORT-OF LIKE A SANDWICH HAS 2                               SLICES OF BREAD WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS INSIDE)
........f.   THE NUMBER OF BEATS IN EACH SECTION FORMED A MATHEMATICAL PATTERN
........g.  STUDENTS COUNTED THE BEATS IN EACH SECTION and PERFORMED DIFFERENT BODY                PERCUSSION ACTIONS FOR THE DIFFERENT COLORED SECTIONS
........h.  STUDENTS THEN ASKED TO STOP COUNTING and BY USING THEIR EARS DETERMINE                  WHEN THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS STARTED DISPLAYED BY THEIR USE OF THE                            DIFFERENT BODY PERCUSSION MOVEMENTS

ADV. STRINGS
01. PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN
.......a.  PULLED OUT A DIFFICULT RHYTHMIC PASSAGE AND INTELLECTUALIZED THE                               COUNTING NUMERICALLY, COUNTED and CLAPPED IT, THEN INCREASED THE SPEED OF             THE PASSAGE, THEN ELIMINATED THE COUNTING and "TAH-ED" THE PASSAGE TO                     TRANSFER THE RHYTHM AS AN AUTOMATIC REFLEX
.......b.  PLAYED THE ENTIRE PIECE
02.  MY HEART GOES ON

BEG. STRINGS
01.  MY HEART GOES ON (MELODY)
........a.  DEMONSTRATION OF THE MUSIC
........b.  SIGHT READ
........c.  REVIEW OF MUSICAL ROAD SIGNS
........d.  READ THROUGH AGAIN
02.  PARADISE (HARMONY)