WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013

QUOTE:
“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”

AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A true musician must be willing to give up everything for his art"

COMPOSER
DEBUSSY

L 'Isle Joyeuse

Performed by Walter Gieseking

(impressionistic art)

l'Isle Joyeuse (the Joyfull Island) is Debussy's longest piano piece. 

It contains a number of sequences with changing atmospheres, evoking the natural elements (the sun, the sea, the wind...), 

in a typically impressionistic approach. The piece was partly inspired by Watteau’s painting L’Embarquement de Cythère,

"L'Embarquement pour Cythere" by Antoine Watteau

in which a happy group of revellers depart for/from the mythical island of Cythera in the Mediterranean, 

birthplace of Venus, the goddess of love. The island (which uses the English spelling ‘isle’implicated in the title) also is a reference to the Channel Island of Jersey where in 1904 Debussy escaped to its "joyfull" atmosphere with Emma Bardac, who became his second wife.

http://pianosociety.com/new/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5356

http://notesfromapianist.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/j-is-for-joyeuse-debussys-lisle-joyeuse/

GENERAL MUSIC

01.  COMPLETEDED WORKSHEET ON "WHAT IS BODY LANGUAGE and SILENCE"

........a.  DISCUSSED WHAT A CONDUCTOR IS and WHAT FUNCTIONS THE CONDUCTOR PROVIDES
02. DISCUSSED HOW TO FOLLOW A CONDUCTOR
03.  PRACTICED FOLLOWING THE CONDUCTOR USING PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
........a.  PRACTICED SOUNDS VERSUS SILENCES (MOVEMENT VERSUS NON-MOVEMENT)
........b.  LOUD/SOFT/GETTING LOUDER FROM SOFT (CRESCENDO)/GETTING SOFTER FROM 
             LOUD (DECRESCENDO) 
........c.  STOPPING and STARTING

ADV. STRINGS
01. PICTURE DAY
02.  REVIEWED BEHAVIOR FOR TOMORROW'S FIELD TRIP

BEG. STRINGS

01. PICTURE DAY
02.  REVIEWED BEHAVIOR FOR TOMORROW'S FIELD TRIP