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Monday, May 13, 2013

MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

QUOTE:
"No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed
  unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
AUTHOR: Martha Graham
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artist is never satisfied with his/her art. The pleasure the artists gets is in the act of
  striving for the perfection that will never be realized.”

COMPOSER
JOPLIN
http://marvinhamlisch.us/news/scott-joplin/
The Entertainer
(from a piano roll)

"The Entertainer" (1902) is a classic melodic and rhythmic piano rag written in the jazz idiom of ragtime, a style to which Scott Joplin is perhaps the man most responsible and best known for. It is sub-titled "A rag time two step," which was a form of dance popular until about 1911 (and a style which was common among rags written at the time) with a musical structure: Intro AA BB A CC Intro2 DD. While ragtime began as a piano style, it was soon arranged for  numerous musical ensembles and became very popular for the American music of its day.

His rag, "The Entertainer," (and consequently a revival of his other compositions) was made popular in our time by its use in the 1973 Oscar-winning motion picture "The Sting," with a score adapted from the music of Joplin by Marvin Manlich. The tune became so popular it even hit on the pop music charts. This new interest in Joplin's music won so much belated recognition that a special award was bestowed posthumously, in Joplin's Bicentennial Year, for his contributions to American music.


GENERAL MUSIC
01. THEORY: USING STEPWISE MOTION TO HELP IDENTIFY NOTES THAT MOVE BY SKIP IN 
       MUSIC NOTATION
02. VIOLIN PARTS
.......a.  LEARNING ABOUT THE VIOLIN PARTS BY LOOKING AT A BROKEN VIOLIN 
.......b.  EACH PART OF THE VIOLIN IS HANDED OUT TO STUDENTS TO LOOK AT and TOUCH AS IT 
            IS EXPLAINED
.......c.  STARTED REVIEW OF THE PARTS
03.  ALTERNATIVE ASSIGNMENT:  MATCHING MUSIC TERMS WITH DEFINITIONS

ADV. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION
JUNE 5th 5:00 PM (4:30 CALL TIME) DEDICATION FOR PATRICK'S GARDEN 
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION TO PLAY "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"
01.  WE WENT TO MR. ROA'S ROOM TO PRACTICE OUR LATIN NUMBERS

BEG. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION]
01.  WE WENT TO MR. ROA'S ROOM TO PRACTICE OUR LATIN NUMBERS WITH THE CHOIR
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