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Monday, May 20, 2013

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

QUOTE:
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
AUTHOR: Plato
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music can highlight everything you do in life.”















COMPOSER
JOPLIN
Sunflower Slow Drag
Sunflower Slow Drag (1901) was a musical collaboration between Scott Joplin and the composer Scott Hayden
(Joplin was courting Hayden's widowed sister-in-law Belle who became his first wife).  John Stillwell Stark, the publisher, advertised it as "the twin sister of the Maple Leaf" because the music was nearly as popular when it first appeared. Hayden, besides being a composer, was known to be as capable a player as his contemporary James Scott, while Joplin preferred composing and teaching over performing. They were also to later collaborate on another piece called The Felicity Rag.

A "Slow Drag" was a type of popular dance of the period, which was danced to ragtime music, in the format: Intro/ A/ 
A/ B/ B/ A/ Trio/Intro/ C/ C/ D/ D. It is thought that Hayden composed the particularly difficult A and D sections while Joplin contributed the pleasantly subdued contrasting trio (and a few other thematic touches). The trio is distinguished by its softer dynamics, pentatonic emphasis, and broader note range while still managing to tie in some of the patterns from the previous passages. At the end of the piece the final D section is intentionally slowed as it was traditional to do so for the finale of many cakewalks or drags of the time. The closing portion is remarkably close to that in the famous one from The Entertainer (1902). In fact, the structures of the two pieces are also similar; both with big, rhythmic celebratory chords leading off the second subject in both works.

http://www.ragtimemusic.com/midifile/sunflwrd.mid
http://kreusch-sheet-music.net/noten/KSM_ScottJoplin_Sunflower__000_72739.pdf
http://www.artwallpaper.eu/Paintings/archives/8195/vincent-van-gogh-paintings-still-life-vase-with-twelve-sunflowers-2
GENERAL MUSIC
01. THEORY:  TREBLE CLEF NOTE READING
.......a.  INTRODUCTION TO CLEF SIGNS: TREBLE ("G") BASS ("F") ALTO ("C")
.......b.  LEARNED HOW TO MEMORIZE TREBLE CLEF NOTES ON THE STAFF
.......c.  WORKED ON FIRST PAGE OF THEORY BOOKLET
02.  INSTRUMENT MAKING DEMONSTRATIONS: DAY 1
03.  VIOLIN LEFT PIZZICATO 
........a.  DEMONSTRATION ON THE NEXT STEP IN VIOLIN PLAYING (TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW IF TIME)

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"

BEG. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION

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