Showing posts with label MARCH 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MARCH 2014. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014



QUOTE:
"No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
  There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that
  keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
AUTHOR: Martha Graham
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"An artist is never satisfied with his/her art. The
  pleasure the artists gets is in the act   of striving
  for the perfection that will never be realized."

COMPOSER
JOPLIN
http://marvinhamlisch.us/news/scott-joplin/
THE ENTERTAINER
(From a Piano Roll)
Those paper rolls were some kind
of forerunners for juke-boxes.
They were often used in the
penny-in-the-slot player pianos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q
"The Entertainer" (1902) is a classic melodic and
rhythmic piano rag written in the jazz idiom of
ragtime, a style to which Scott Joplin is perhaps
the man most responsible and best known for.
It is sub-titled "A rag time two step," which was a
form of dance popular until about 1911 (and a
style which was common among rags written at
the time) with a musical structure:
Intro AA BB A CC Intro 2 DD.

While ragtime began as

a piano style, it was soon

arranged for numerous
musical ensembles and
became very popular
for the American music
of its day.
Joplin's rag,
"The Entertainer,"
THE ENTERTAINER
Instrumental Version
from "The Sting"
Marvin Hamlisch, Arranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=hKeUurQ6sF8
(and consequently a revival of his
other compositions) was made
popular in our time by its use in the 1973
Oscar-winning motion picture "The Sting,"

with a score adapted from the music
of Joplin by Marvin Hamlisch.


The tune became so popular it even
hit on the pop music charts. This new
interest in Joplin's music won so much belated
recognition that a special award was bestowed
posthumously, in Joplin's Bicentennial Year,
for his contributions to American music.
THE ENTERTAINER
Piano Music
THE ENTERTAINER
How to Play Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=bXC8i8Z4w2c
The front cover of The Entertainer sheet music. It has a green background and in the centre is a red ink drawing of a stereotyped African-American performer on stage in top hat and tails
LINKS
GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  21 GUNS
2.  NUMB

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
GRANADA
1. KEYBOARD: ODE TO JOY INTRO.
2.  THEORY: STEP-WISE MOTION
HILLVIEW
1.  THEORY: STEP-WISE MOTION
a.  Reviewed first 8 pages of worksheets

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  BILE CABBAGES
2.  CIELITO LINDO

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  21 GUNS
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Friday, March 21, 2014

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

QUOTE:
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think.
  Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
AUTHOR: W.H. Auden
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"You do not need to think all the time to enjoy music;
   you can just enjoy the feelings."













COMPOSER
ROSSINI
http://blossomboots.blogspot.com/2012/07/singing-cats.html#.UX4Tt6IskTM
DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
For 2 Voices and Piano
Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois
Many are the vocal recitals and opera
galas that have ended with the Cat
Duet as an encore. Though scored for
two sopranos and piano, the work
exists in orchestral versions and has
been sung by male-female pairs and
even as a tomcat duet.
The text consists in its entirety of the
single word "meow," and singers
treat the melodies basically
however they want to.
The origins of this work are cloudy,
but historians agree that it is not an
authentic work by Rossini. It does,
however, contain a good deal of
Rossini's music, so the attribution
is not completely off the mark.
The Cat Duet contains elements of
1) the aria "Ah, come mai non senti,"
from the second act of Rossini's opera
Otello (1816), 2) a nearby duet between
the characters Otello and Iago, and 3)
an earlier work in the same vein, the
"Cat Cavatina" of Danish opera and
song composer C.E.F. Weyse.
C.E.F. Weyse
The compiler was probably
a British composer better known for
his output of hymns. In 1973, the
Schott publishing house issued a
facsimile of an 1825 edition of the
Cat Duet, published by Ewer &
Johanning and credited to Pearsall,
Detail from painting
Pearsall
but bearing the
pseudonym G. Berthold.
From Rossini's day down to ours,
the piece has never lost its appeal
for singers, concertgoers, and cat
lovers; it often appears, of course,
on compilations of classical music
pertaining to felines.
DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
Animated Version
Lele Luzzati, Animator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjGrY4vW7cc
http://www.el-atril.com/partituras/Rossini/due_gatti.pdf
http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=14680

Laurel Birch fabric on equilter CWABU5IN
DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Martí

DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
Modern Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPblclcMmzs#t=19
DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
Acapella Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2m41N7TC0
DUETTO BUFFO
DI DUE GATTI
(CAT DUET)
"Meow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8xqkYggss
Andy Warhol, 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy , New York, The Artist, circa 1954, (Feldman & Schellmann IV.52A-68A)
Andy Warhol: 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy, 1954
THE AD-DRESSING OF CATS
From 'The Ad-Dressing of Cats'
by T. S. Eliot

You’ve read of several kinds of Cat,
And my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter
To understand their character.

You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.

For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse –
But all may be described in verse.

You’ve seen them both at work and games,
And learnt about their proper names,
Their habits and their habitat:
But...How would you ad-dress a Cat?

So first, your memory I’ll jog,
And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG.
Now Dogs pretend they like to fight;
They often bark, more seldom bite;

But yet a Dog is, on the whole,
What you would call a simple soul.
Of course I’m not including Pekes,
And such fantastic canine freaks.

The usual Dog about the Town
Is much inclined to play the clown,
And far from showing too much pride
Is frequently undignified.

He’s very easily taken in –
Just chuck him underneath the chin
Or slap his back or shake his paw,
And he will gambol and guffaw.

He’s such an easy-going lout,
He’ll answer any hail or shout.
Again I must remind you that
A Dog’s a Dog — A CAT’S A CAT.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
Don’t speak till you are spoken to.
Myself, I do not hold with that -
I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.

But always keep in mind that he
Resents familiarity.
I bow, and taking off my hat,
Ad-dress him in this form: O CAT!

But if he is the Cat next door,
Whom I have often met before
(He comes to see me in my flat)
I greet him with an OOPSA CAT!

I’ve heard them call him James Buz-James –
But we’ve not got so far as names.
Before a Cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,

Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream;
And you might now and then supply
Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie,

Some potted grouse, or salmon paste –
He’s sure to have his personal taste.
(I know a Cat, who makes a habit
Of eating nothing else but rabbit,

And when he’s finished, licks his paws
So’s not to waste the onion sauce.)
A Cat’s entitled to expect
These evidences of respect.

And so in time you reach your aim,
And finally call him by his NAME.
So this is this, and that is that:
And there’s how you AD-DRESS A CAT.


http://lesamisdeschatsdeportvendres.over-blog.com/article-vide-62912956.html

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  HASTE TO THE WEDDING
2.  ROCKY TOP
3. BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
4.  IMAGINE

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
1. VIOLIN  PARTS
(to be continued next school week)

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  CIELITO LINDO
2.  BILE CABBAGES
3.  CHARIOTS OF FIRE

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  LAS MANANITAS II

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