MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

QUOTE: 
“Any great work of art... revives and re-adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the 

  extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets 

  you breathe its strange, special air.”

AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein

MEANING OF THE QUOTE: 
“A great piece of music can transport your imagination back in 
  time, ahead in the future, make you laugh or cry, and send you 
  to exotic places.”

COMPOSER

COPLAND

Fanfare For The Common Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA&feature=related

This fanfare was written on request from Eugene Goossens,

Eugene Goossens, 1920

composer and conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,

 in response to the US entry into the Second World War.

Fanfare For The Common Man

Aaron Copland Conducts

From the New York Philharmonic's "Young People's Concerts"

Ep. 2 "What is American Music?"

Original broadcast February 1st, 1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgj7_DmgDqs

LESSON PLAN

http://www.rpo.org/UserFiles/File/PDF/intermediate%2009-10/Copland_09.pdf

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  G MAJOR SCALE
a.  Separate bows UH
2.  BELIEVE
a.  Review subdivided counting

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1. AUDIENCE ETTIQUETTE AT DIFFERENT VENUES
2.  KEYBOARD RECITALS

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  OPEN STRING BOWING
a.  UH and LH of bow
2.  FINGER PATTERN: DO-RE-MI-FA
a.  Do-Re-Mi-Fa/Fa-Mi-Re-Do each string
b. UH bow
3.  OLD MACDONALD
a.  Everyone plays Part 1 then Part 2
b.  Class separated into Part 1 and 2 and plays the song by parts (then groups switch parts)

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD
a.  White Keys
2.  MUSICAL ALPHABET
3.  HOW TO PLAY SONGS USING HAND FRAMES

WHAT IS A CLEF?

AFTER LEARNING ABOUT THE LINES AND SPACES OF THE MUSICAL STAFF WE ARE NOW GOING TO IDENTIFY EACH LINE AND SPACE WITH A LETTER FROM THE MUSICAL ALPHABET.

A SYMBOL, CALLED A CLEF, IS PLACED TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE STAFF TO DETERMINE THE NAME OF EACH LINE OR SPACE.

BY UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF MOVING IN STEP-WISE MOTION FROM LINE TO SPACE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MUSICAL ALPHABET FORWARD AND BACKWARDS, IT IS EASY TO DETERMINE ANY NOTE ON ANY MUSICAL STAFF JUST BY MEMORIZING THE NAME OF ONE LINE ON THE PARTICULAR CLEF'S STAFF (WHICH THE SYMBOL ACTUALLY SHOWS YOU).

IN NOTE READING THE CONCEPTS ARE THE SAME ONLY THE LINES AND SPACES ASSOCIATED WITH EACH SYMBOL HAVE DIFFERENT MUSICAL ALPHABET LETTER NAMES. 

THE 3 BASIC CLEF SYMBOLS (THOUGHT THERE ARE OTHERS) ARE:

TREBLE or "G" CLEF:

 

Treble Clef notation is generally used for instruments or voices in a higher range 

(right hand of the piano, violin, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, female voices, etc.)

BASS or "F" CLEF:

Bass Clef notation is generally used for instruments or voices in a lower range 

(left hand of the piano, cello, string bass, trombone, tuba, bassoon, male voices, etc.

ALTO or "C" CLEF: 

Alto Clef notation is not commonly used except for on the viola.

http://www.treblis.com/notation/clefs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef

http://cnx.org/content/m10941/latest/

http://www.essential-music-theory.com/music-clef.html

http://www.mymusictheory.com/grade5/lessons/4-clefs.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

QUOTE:
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies 

  and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that 

  something is right in the world." 

AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”

COMPOSER

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

Sinfonia Antartica

Vaughan Williams provided the music for the film Scott of the Antarctic in 1947, and was so inspired by the subject that he incorporated much of the music into a symphony he called Sinfonia Antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") his seventh Symphony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinfonia_antartica

The score of each movement is prefaced by a quote:

Prelude: 

Andante maestoso 

To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,
To defy power which seems omnipotent,
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:
This … is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,
This is alone life, joy, empire and victory.

Shelley: Prometheus Unbound

Scherzo: 

Moderato 

There go the ships
and there is that Leviathan
whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.

Psalm 104

Landscape: 

Lento 

Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain’s brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain—
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts!

Coleridge: Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Intermezzo: 

Andante sostenuto 

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne: The Sun Rising

Epilogue: 

Alla marcia, moderato

 (nontroppo allegro) 

I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we
knew we took them, things have come out against
us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.

 Captain Scott’s last journal

TODAY WAS PARENT CONFERENCE DAY

AND NO STUDENTS WERE PRESENT

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

QUOTE:
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, 

  for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this 

  great force.” 

AUTHOR: Irving Berlin

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“What you feel inside will control your entire life on the outside.”

COMPOSER
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

TUBA CONCERTO I:
PLAYED BY GOURLAY 

TUBA CONCERTO II:

PLAYED BY AARON TINDALL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ89rtmf8U

TUBA CONCERTO III:

PLAYED BY DAVID MUNOZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zexr5jRi9h8

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS

1. D MAJOR SCALE 

a.  Shifting on one string with the 1st finger

2.  RUDOLPH

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT

1. KEYBOARD

a.  Preparation for recitals next week

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1. OPEN STRING BOWING
a. Using the lower half of the bow 4x on each string
1) Silent bow rocking at the frog to determine bow levels
2) Weight distribution discussed at different parts of the bow
1. OLD MAC DONALD (on two strings)
(Using DO-RE-MI and DO-RE-MI-FA patterns)

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  CONCERT C MAJOR SCALE
a.  4x each note
2. SILENT NIGHT
3.  PACHELBEL CANON

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TONETTE

INFORMATION TAKEN FROM: http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textt/Tonette.html

CLASSIFICATION:
Aerophone
HISTORY:
This instrument was created in 1938 and used in American elementary music education as a pre-band instrument. This allowed young children to play a simple instrument and learn musical notation. It also allowed the students not only to play simple melodies, either alone or as a group, it allowed groups to perform simple harmonies along with the melodies and begin to experience performing as an ensemble. The Tonette has largely been superseded, through the efforts of Music Educators, by the much more musically accurate recorder family of instruments. It is also known as a song flute. Although this instrument is considered a toy by most, (or at best a training instrument) it was featured in Peter Schickele's Gross Concerto under his pen name of P. D. Q. Bach.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
A small black plastic whistle-type instrument that is end-blown. It has seven finger holes on the front of the instrument and a thumb hole on the back. The small number of finger holes with a limited range and the fact that is is easy to achieve a good sound makes this instrument ideal for young children.
SOUND PROPERTIES:
The Tonette has a very pleasant sound, not unlike a recorder or flute. Overblowing is possible to extend the range, but that sound is not entirely pleasing when performed by a novice and somewhat difficult to control.
RANGE:
The range of the Tonette is just over an octave from middle C (c1) to d2. Also called a song flute

  

TONETTE RANGE

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