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Thursday, January 9, 2014

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014

QUOTE:
"Nothing right can be accomplished
  in art without enthusiasm."
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Art starts out in the artists soul inwardly.
 The art can not be expressed outwardly
 without the willingness of the artist
 to work hard."




COMPOSER
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade Op.35
http://www.momh.org.uk/exhibitions-detail-photo.php?cat_id=1&prod_id=75&type=main&id=75

Scheherazade by Bakst
Scheherazade Op. 35


http://james-mayhew-author-illustrator.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov)
http://muswrite.blogspot.com/2011/09/rimsky-korsakov-scheherazade.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10139009


"Scheherazade"

LYRICS TO A POP SONG PERFORMED BY MADONNA

He was the sultan of Samarcand
He had a harem of dancing girls at his command
He owned all the eye could see
Something was wrong, he wasn't happy

And then it happened much to his surprise
The loveliest woman he'd ever seen
He asked her name and she replied

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

She was the daughter of the grand vizier 
A real beauty with a heart of gold, she was so sincere 
She made a date with destiny 
Marry the king, make him happy



He was enchanted on their wedding night 
Just a captive under her spell 
Spending a thousand and one Arabian nights

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

All of his body tingled with delight 
Hearing the stories she loved to tell 
She was a vision, such a lovely sight

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

He made a promise on the morning star 
He would change, throw away his scimitar 
So she came to stay 
And that's the way the story goes 
Until this very day

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

He was enchanted on their wedding night 
Just a captive under her spell 
Spending a thousand and one Arabian nights

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

All of his body tingled with delight 
Hearing the stories she loved to tell 
She was a vision, such a lovely sight

[Madonna:] Scheherazade

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/madonna/scheherazade.html
Sheherazade by Rene Magritte

 The story of Scheherazade was also placed into music as a song cycle (and later as an orchestral version) by the famous French composer Maurice Ravel:
Ravel's 'Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie,' written in 1898 but unpublished, 
is a work for orchestra intended as the overture for an opera of the same name. 
It was first performed at a concert of the Société Nationale on 27 May 1899. 

Scheherazade is the young bride of the Sultan. After one of his wives cheats on him, he decides to take a new wife every day and have her executed the next morning. But it all stops with Scheherazade. She marries the Sultan in order to save all future young women from this fate. She tells the Sultan fascinating stories, leaving him in such suspense each night that he can't execute her the next morning for fear of not hearing the end of the story. After 1,001 of these well-told tales, the Sultan relents.  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10139009

LINKS

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  Warm-Up:  D Major Scale
2.  Boulevard of Broken Dreams

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  Rules and Procedures
2.  "What Is Silence?" Worksheet
3.  "Let's Play the Stick Game"
a.  Echo Clapping/Percussion Instruments
b.  Practiced to achieve the silence inbetween the sounds

 HILLVIEW
1.  Rules and Procedures
2.  "What Is Silence" Worksheet
3.  "ALLEY CAT" (Musical Form)
a.  ABA form explanation
b.  Music and Math

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  Warm-Up:  SHIFTING
a.  Major scale ascending (up) on each string
b.  0 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
2.  Bile Em' Cabbages

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  Warm-Up:  D Major Scale
2.  Rocky Top

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