"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
AUTHOR: Charlie Parker
“A lot of who you are is due in part to your life’s experiences. Emotions that emanate from
those experiences will come out uniquely in the creation of music.”
COMPOSER
Solace
Solace (full version)
Solace, first published by Scott Joplin in 1909, is perhaps the most delicate and poignant piece that the "King of Ragtime" ever wrote. The famous film composer, Marvin Hamlisch, selected "Solace" as one of the Joplin pieces featured in the George Roy Hill motion picture "The Sting." Hamlisch chose only the C and D strains (the second half of this haunting tune) from the piece to use during the more downbeat moments of the movie in the sound track and because of that many people do not recognize the piece until they hear the C strain.
With Solace, Joplin had reached a new maturity where he could express a range of complex emotions (unusually complex among piano rags) lifting Ragtime far beyond its popular appeal as a light-hearted form of music. The piece's subtitle, "A Mexican Serenade," reflects the fact in that its left hand rhythm suggests a slow latin Tango.
Rudi Blesh (an American jazz critic and scholar) writing about the use of the Tango said,
Rudi Blesh (an American jazz critic and scholar) writing about the use of the Tango said,
"Originally from Cuba, by way of African cult houses where it is said to have been known by its African tribal name, 'Tangana', this rhythm had entered American piano literature as early as 1860 with Louis Moreau Gottschalk's 'Souvenir de la Havane.' The first reported instance of Tango in the unchronicled history of American Negro music is a rag-tango called 'The Dream,' composed and played by an itinerant black player, Jessie Pickett, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893."
The Tango became quite popular as both a dance and a music form during this time with many composers and publishers trying to fill the need for the public's desire for it. A volume of "Spanish Tinge"(a reference to the belief that an Afro-Latin rhythmic touch offers a reliable method of spicing the more conventional 4/4 rhythms commonly used in jazz and pop music.) pieces were created. Though they had the same feel, they were not quite authentic Tangos closer resembling the more African-based Habañera. Solace is essentially a Habañera in ragtime form.
The Habañera rhythm is used consistently throughout the A and B sections of the piece. The harmonic structure of the B section gives the impression of a possible key change, not establishing that we are still in the key of C until fourteen measures in. The C section includes fermatas (deliberate pauses) at the beginning of each phrase, a technique often used in the Tango or Habañera (such as the famous Habañera from the opera Carmen) to accentuate a certain facet of the dance. It also breaks away from the primary rhythm briefly into more of a Habañera with passing tones. The rhythm resumes in the final section, with a delicate close to the section that is in contrast to the expansive playing in the previous twelve measures
http://www.ragtimemusic.com/midifile/solace.mid
http://kreusch-sheet-music.net/noten/KSM_ScottJoplin_Solace_000_64618.pdf
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/JoplinS/solace/solace-let.pdf
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/JoplinS/solace/solace.mid
http://kreusch-sheet-music.net/noten/KSM_ScottJoplin_Solace_000_64618.pdf
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/JoplinS/solace/solace-let.pdf
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/JoplinS/solace/solace.mid
GENERAL MUSIC
01. THEORY: TREBLE CLEF NOTE READING
.......a. WORKED ON THIRD PAGE OF THEORY BOOKLET
.......b. TURNED IN FIRST 3 PAGES FOR GRADING
02. INSTRUMENT MAKING DEMONSTRATIONS: DAY 3
03. VIOLIN LEFT HOLD
........a. VIOLIN LEFT HAND PIZZICATO PREPARATION
..............1) LEFT THUMB PLACED AT CURVE OF THE NECK
..............2) LEFT FINGERS (ONE AT A TIME) DEPRESS THE STRING TO FORM A SPRING 4X ON EACH STRING
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"
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