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Friday, February 28, 2014

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014

QUOTE:
"I adore art...when I am alone with my
 notes, my heart pounds and the tears
 stream from my eyes, and my emotion
 and my joys are too much to bare."
AUTHOR: Giuseppe Verdi
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"The emotion and joy felt from the
  act of creating art is totally fulfilling."










COMPOSER
HAYDN

SYMPHONY NO. 59 (ca. 1768)
in A MAJOR HOB..I:59
"Feuer" (Fire)
Adam Fischer, Conductor
Austro - Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=14225
79428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=FWV14bJY4LM
Marcus_Larson_-_Storm_på_havet
The abounding energy in the first movement

of this symphony may have led to its nickname
"Fire." Some authorities suggest though that
the name "Fire" is connected to (or with) a
Haydn marionette opera entitled Die
Feuerbrunst (literally Fire-Love), being
performed at Esterhaza Palace to which this
symphony may have originally been its overture.

Haydn wrote his operas primarily for
performance in the private theater of his
patron the Hungarian Prince Eszterhazy.
The Eszterhaza palace complex included an
elaborate, large-scale marionette theater. For
the sophisticated marionette shows Haydn was
expected to provide instrumental and vocal
music. The scores of Haydn's puppet singspiels
have been largely lost. This is one of only two
such surviving works that has been
reconstructed for modern performance.

During the composer’s lifetime the work was

dubbed the Feuer Sinfonia on at least one set of
orchestral parts used by the composer himself.
The handwritten copy of the manuscript, now at
Yale University, was prepared during Haydn's
lifetime from the original which has been lost.
The copy was prepared by Johann Traeg, a
Viennese publisher, who owned at least half a
dozen original Haydn manuscripts by the end of
the eighteenth century. A difference exists
between the name Haydn gave the Opera and
that given to it by the Traeg Catalogue, in which
it is called "Die Feuerbrunst" (The Fire") Haydn
called it Die Feuersbrunst, oder das abgebrannte
Haus ("The Conflagration, or the House that
Burned Down," 1776 - 77).
SYMPHONY NO. 59 (ca. 1768)
in A MAJOR HOB. I:59
"Feuer" (Fire)
David Blum, Conductor
Esterhazy Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mj8TLWa
BM&x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404
http://muswrite.blogspot.com/2014/10/haydn-symphony-no-59-in-major-fire.html
I. Presto
II. Andante o più tosto Allegretto 5:46
III. Menuetto – Trio 13:30
IV. Allegro assai 17:17
1.  A MAJOR SCALE 2 OCTAVES
a.  Slurring 2 WB
2.  VIVA LA VIDA

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
1.  KEYBOARD (RECITAL PRACTICE)
a.  America
b.  Yankee Doodle

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  MAJOR SCALES G, D, A
a.  Slowly rhythm
b.  Slurring 2 WB
2.  CIDER HOUSE RULES
a.  Worked extensively on last section bowings and bow placements

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  LAS MANANITAS II
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014

QUOTE:
"It's not what you are, but what
 you don't become that hurts."
AUTHOR: Oscar Levant
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Not working up to and using your abilities to their fullest
 potential will stop you from feeling content with your progress."




COMPOSER
HAYDN

http://www.classicfm.com/composers/haydn/music/cello-concerto-no1-c/
CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1
in C MAJOR HOB. VIIb:1
Mstislav Rostropovich, Cello
Iona Brown, Conductor
St Martin-in-the-Fields

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrADzwq
AO8&x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404
I. Moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro molto

CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1
in C MAJOR HOB. VIIb:1
I. Moderato
Cello Concerto in C Major 1st Movement:
Main theme played on cello after orchestral introduction
Jacqueline du Pre, Cello
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1
in C MAJOR HOB. VIIb:1
Jacqueline du Pre, Cello
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114
404&v=yPlDGZ2A0Gs&x-yt-ts=1422579428
CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1
in C MAJOR HOB. VIIb:1
Jacqueline du Pre, Cello
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=8511440
4&v=4VwcT7MM_wE&x-yt-ts=1422579428
Paul Gauguin: The Cellist

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  A MAJOR SCALE 2 OCTAVES
a.  Slurring 2 WB
2.  MANANITAS II

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
1.  THEORY: NOTE READING
a.  Musical alphabet on the recorder
b.  Note reading on the treble clef
c.  Transference of note reading on recorder to keyboard
1) Recorder notes to keyboard worksheet

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  MAJOR SCALES G, D, A
a.  Slowly rhythm
b.  Slurring 2 WB
2.  CIDER HOUSE RULES
a.  Reviewed note reading on different strings

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  ROCKY TOP
2.  BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
1.  IMAGINE
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014

QUOTE:
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
 If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen, then thirty-two.
 Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
AUTHOR: John Cage
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Repetition helps to create interest. The more you are 
 acquainted with a subject the more you are apt to enjoy it.”










 COMPOSER
HAYDN

PIANO CONCERTO
in D MAJOR HOB. XVIII:11
Sviatoslav Richter, Piano
Yuri Tsiruk, Conductor
Minsk Chamber Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWu_OUk6c
1Q&x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404

PIANO CONCERTO
in D MAJOR HOB. XVIII:11
Movement 2:
Un poco Adagio
Piano Concerto in D Major: 2nd Movement
Sviatoslav Richter, Piano
Yuri Tsiruk, Conductor
Minsk Chamber Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=14225794
28&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=CHlGjCcw78c

PIANO CONCERTO
in D MAJOR HOB. XVIII:11
Movement 3:
Rondo all'Ungarese - Allegro assai
Piano Concerto in D Major: 3rd Movement
Sviatoslav Richter, Piano
Yuri Tsiruk, Conductor
Minsk Chamber Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=14225
79428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=QjM57rYsrWI

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  A MAJOR SCALE 2 OCTAVE
2.  IMAGINE
3.  ELEANOR RIGBY

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
1.  RECORDER
a.  TURKEY TROT
b.  WHACKY MARCH
1)  Review musical road signs

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  SHIFTING THE SCALE
a.  0-1-1-1...going up and down
b.  On each string
2.  HO HEY
a.  Worked on the slow section then put all together

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  Eleanor Rigby

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014

QUOTE:
"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to
 be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."
AUTHOR: Dave Brubeck
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"It takes a lifetime just to start
 understanding yourself."


COMPOSER
HAYDN
LORD NELSON MASS
II. Gloria
Luís Otavio Santos, Conductor
Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=14225
79428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=dvb4qfAR58Y
http://leadingtone.tumblr.com/post/24953647049/in-music-an-agogic-accent-is-a-natural-and-in
Amongst his other court duties Haydn was
required to produce a new mass each year
to celebrate the Name Day of the
Princess Esterházy.
Le Brun: Princess Maria Esterházy (1768-1845)
[Princess Maria Josepha Hermenegild,
wife of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy] 
Though in 1798, when he wrote this Mass,
Haydn's reputation was at its peak, his
world was in turmoil. Napoleon had won
four major battles with Austria in less than
a year. The previous year, in early 1797,
his armies had crossed the Alps and
threatened Vienna itself. In May 1798,
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bonaparte and his chief of staff in Egypt
The summer of 1798 was therefore a terrifying
time for Austria, and when Haydn finished this
Mass in D Minor (according to the autograph
score the Mass was composed between July
10th and August 31st of 1798) within a month
William Lionel Wyllie: The Battle of the Nile
on August 1, 1798 his own title, in the
catalogue of his works, was "Missa in
Angustiis" or "Mass for Troubled Times"
[the autograph score is simply entitled
"Missa" and the title "Missa in Angustiis"
(literally meaning "narrow" or "constricted,"
so perhaps, loosely, "Mass in Time of Fear"
or "Distress")]. Precisely how this Mass
became to be known as the Lord Nelson,
when and by whom, shall probably never
be known but speculation was that the news
of Napoleon's stunning defeat in the
The Battle of the Nile
Destruction of the Orient
by British forces led by
Lord Nelson
was possibly filtered through to Austria
and thus by Haydn and his audience
on the very day of its first performance
in September of that same year.
Coincidentally this vague association
with Admiral Horatio Nelson led this
Mass to gradually acquire the nickname,
"Lord Nelson Mass."
The title became indelible when in 1800
Lord Nelson himself came to Eisenstadt
as a guest of Prince Esterházy
Martin Knoller: Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy
and visited the Palais Esterházy,
Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt, Great Hall
(now known as the Haydn Hall)
accompanied by his British
Lady Hamilton
Nelson and Lady Hamilton
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
The story of  Lady Hamilton and Horatio Nelson
Starring:
Vivien Leigh, Lady Emma Hamilton
Lawrence Olivier, Lord Horatio Nelson
(FULL MOVIE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evl7ldotkRI#t=459
where he was honored by a musical
performance of Haydn's Te Deum in C
Te Deum No. 2 in C
Sigiswald Kuijken, Conductor
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
La Petite Bande
together with a brief cantata,
Andrew Wyeth:
Lord Nelson Overseeing the Battle of the Nile 
Lines from the Nile
A cantata that tells how Nelson ruled the
waves at the Battle of the Nile.
Rowena Simpson, Vocal 
Douglas Mews, 1843 Broadwood Square Piano
Captain Edward Berry catching Nelson as he
 falls wounded at the Battle of the Nile, 1798
Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson; wounded at the Battle of the Nile
Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson;
wounded at the Battle of the Nile,
wearing the Nile medal presented by Alexander Davison
(which Haydn composed
for Lady Hamilton) and
possibly where he may
have heard this Mass.
http://nelson-society.com/publications/
Nelson and Haydn apparently
became friends; some accounts
tell that Nelson gave Haydn a gold
watch he had won at Aboukir Bay, in
return for the pen that was used to compose
Lady Hamilton's cantata. It is likely that the
name Nelson Mass began being applied to
this piece some time after this event, although
the name was never used by Haydn himself.
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: Beginning of the Action
LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_in_Angustiis
http://www.renochamberorchestra.org/?page_id=3361
http://edufb.net/21238.pdf
Mather Brown - Battle of the Nile.jpg
Mather Brown: A painting of the height of the Battle of the Nile, 1798
Dodd - Morning after the battle of the Nile.jpg
Robert Dodd: The Morning After the Battle of the Nile
LORD NELSON MASS
Complete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2c58sWCC4
4:38 - Gloria in excelsis Deo
8:09 - Qui tollis peccata
12:37 - Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
15:25 - Credo in unum Deum
17:07 - Et incarnatus est
21:12 - Et resurrexit
24:49 - Sanctus
27:15 - Benedictus
33:28 - Agnus Dei
36:16 - Dona nobis pacem

The unusual orchestration of this work:
strings, trumpets, timpani and organ
(no woodwinds or low brass) provides
a stark, angular quality to the work.
Normally, the mass is set in five
movements in musical settings, but
in this symphonic mass, Haydn breaks
the Gloria and Credo into smaller
movements to extend the composition.
A 15th Century Mass
PART OF AN ARTICLE FROM:  
Karen Schuessler Singers
A mass is a choral work originally meant
to be sung during the ritual of Christian
communion or eucharist, where believers
re-enact the last meal of Jesus of Nazareth,
when Jesus instructed his followers to eat
bread and wine (his "body" and his "blood")
in remembrance of him whenever they
gathered together.
The later Christian church
formalized the parts of this
"holy feast," writing words
that were recited by the
priest or sung by the choir:
the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,
Sanctus, Benedictus
and Agnus Dei.
Holy Mass - children, family
In the Kyrie, believers
ask for mercy from God.
This part of the sung
mass is usually very
plaintive, and in the
case of Haydn’s Missa
in Angustiis, in a minor
key, which sounds
sad and pleading.

Kyrie-Eleison
In the Gloria, the
believers praise
God. This part of
the mass is usually
very joyous.

In the Credo, they
recite their beliefs,
often in the form
of the Nicene
creed, a statement
of belief that was
written by church
officials who met at
the first ecumenical
(multi-denominational)
council at the city of
Nicea in 325 CE. This
section of the mass
can often be very long
and repetitive, but in the
Missa in Angustiis, Haydn
uses some musical devices
that lighten the mood.
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In the Sanctus,
the believers again
praise God, and in
the Benedictus they
bless "he who comes
in the name of God."
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In the Angus Dei, right
before the actual receiving
of the bread and the wine,
which represent (or stand
for) the body and blood of

Jesus, believers ask the

Lamb of God to take away

the sins of the world and

grant them peace.
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GRANADA ADV. STRINGS

1. SHIFTING MAJOR SCALE ON ONE STRING

a. 12,12,12...up and down using guide notes

2. HASTE TO THE WEDDING
3. BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
1.  THEORY
a.  Sharps and Flats Pages 4 and 5
2.  KEYBOARDS
a. America and Yankee Doodle for recital

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  SCALES (G,D,A) 
a.  Slur 4 WB
b.  Slur 4 LH
2.  CHARIOTS OF FIRE
3.  HO HEY

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  21 GUNS
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