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Thursday, May 16, 2013

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

QUOTE:
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
AUTHOR: Victor Hugo

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Feelings can be communicated through music in a way that words can 
  never express."











COMPOSER
JOPLIN
Easy Winners

Pianist: Cory Hall 
The Easy Winners (1901), a piece many commentators believe to be one of Joplin's greatest rags and one of his most popular, is something of a celebration of horse racing.   Unusually for Joplin, he chose to publish it himself (in October of that year). Why his usual publisher, John Stark, didn't publish the rag isn't known for certain—one guess is that Joplin may have been trying to get Stark's attention after he had passed on publishing Joplin's ballet The Ragtime Dance. Stark eventually purchased the plates and distributed the piece, but the footer still credited Joplin as the publisher. 

The A section follows a well-known folk pattern that was used in many black-composed pieces throughout the era. It is followed by his most intricate syncopated melodic line to date in the B section. The trio (C section) consists of a simple pattern that is carried through to the end, and the last four measures of it also end the D section, which is largely a call and response type of phrase.


GENERAL MUSIC
01. NET CART COMPUTER PROJECT:  MAKING AN INSTRUMENT
.......a.  COMPLETED PROJECTS and STUDENTS SENT THEM TO THE TEACHER (sjacobson@ewcsd.org)
02.  KEYBOARD SONGS:  TWO HANDS PLAYED AT THE SAME TIME (HARMONY and MELODY) BY NUMBER
.........a.  SONG: ODE TO JOY

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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