THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

QUOTE:
“If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. 

  Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.”

AUTHOR: Robert Schumann

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No single person becomes successful on their own; it takes the support 

  of others.”

COMPOSER
DVORAK

Humoresque
Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDmAxSFt6A&feature=related

Humoresque
Heifetz plays Dvorak's Humoresque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8mzdO3MnI&feature=related

http://teachsuzukiviolin.com/humoresque-jewel-book-3/

http://imslp.org/wiki/8_Humoresques,_Op.101_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k,_Anton%C3%ADn)

A humoresque (hu·mor·esque) or German Humoreske [German Humoreske, from Humor, humor, from English humor] is a type of character piece, generally a short whimsical or fanciful composition expressing a mood or a vague nonmusical idea, usually more good-humored than humorous. Robert Schumann, the first composer to use the term as a musical title, called his Opus 20 (1839) Humoreske (it is atypically like a long suite). His Opus 88, No. 2, is a humoresque for violin, cello, and piano. The best-known is Antonín Dvořák’s Humoresque in G-flat, the seventh in his collection Eight Humoresques for piano (1894). Gustav Mahler originally called his Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1888–99; Songs From the Youth’s Magic Horn) “Humoreske.”

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/276298/humoresque

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/humoresque

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  TUMBALALAIKA

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  RECORDER
a.  DONDE ESTA SANTA CLAUS
b.  New Note: High C (T02)
c.  JOY TO THE WORLD

HILLVIEW
1.  VIOLIN
a.  LEFT PIZZICATO REVIEW
b.  RIGHT PIZZICATO
1)  Performed first in guitar position
2)  Performed in regular position
3) Songs played with Right Pizzicato:
CRIPPLE CREEK
BATMAN

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  GREENSLEEVES
2.  ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH
a.  Fingering review
b.  Playing

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
SECTIONALS: first 25 minutes
1.  STRINGS:  MISTER SANTA
2.  WIND ENSEMBLE: POCHAHONTUS
3.  Bb INSTRUMENTS:  TUMBALALAIKA
4.  SAXOPHONES:  MISTER SANTA
5.  REMAINDER OF STUDENTS AT KEYBOARDS

EVERYONE: LAST 25 MINUTES
1.  MISTER SANTA

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013

QUOTE:
“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the 

  end be no peace.”

AUTHOR: Max Lerner

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Peace will only happen when man learns to accept the differences of 

  others and come together as one.” 

COMPOSER

DVORAK

Serenade For Strings
E Major Op. 22, Complete

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah14jOLKnSs&feature=related

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  SUBDIVISION OF THE BEAT EXERCISE
2)  BELIEVE

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  RECORDER
a.  Holiday Music
1)  JOLLY OLD ST NICK
2)  JINGLE BELLS
3)  WHACKY NUTCRACKER MARCH
4)  DONDE ESTA SANTA CLAUS

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  GREENSLEEVES
2.  JINGLE BELLS
a.  Played with 2 harmonies and a melody part
1)  Practiced each section alone
2) Put all sections together

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SILENT NIGHT
2.  PACHELBEL/JOLLY
3.  FELIZ NAVIDAD
4.  JINGLE BELL ROCK
5.  RUDOLPH
6.  BELIEVE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013

QUOTE:
“Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”

AUTHOR: Ludwig Van Beethoven

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Good art will outlast the generations and continue to be popular.”

COMPOSER

DVORAK

Slavonic Dance No. 2
E Minor Opus 72 

Perlman (violin) and Ma (cello) duet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOpM43FIDo&feature=related

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1. SUBDIVISION B Y 16TH NOTES
2.  MISTER SANTA
a.  Sight Reading
3.  BELIEVE

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  THEORY: NOTE READING
a.  Step-wise motion
2.  THEORY:  LINES-SPACES
a.  Completed packet and turned in

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  OPEN STRING BOWING
a.  Lifted UP bows at the tip
b.  7 Bow Levels
2.  JINGLE BELLS
a.  Harmony Open Strings
b.  Harmony Open Strings and First Finger
1)  Note Reading
c.  Playing both harmony parts together
d.  Playing melody with both harmony parts together

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SECTIONALS
a.  Bb Parts:  TUMBALALAIKA
b.  Flutes: GREENSLEEVES
c.  Eb Saxophones:  MISTER SANTA
d.  Remainder: Keyboards
2.  MISTER SANTA
a.  Sight Reading with the entire class

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013

QUOTE:
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits 

  of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”

AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Wisdom and knowledge are developed through lessons learned from 

  making mistakes.”

COMPOSER

DVORAK

http://kaweorejate.blogspot.com/2010/05/bulan-dtg-bulan.html

SONG TO THE MOON

http://www.laopera.net/grandes-arias/anna-netrebko-song-to-the-moon-rusalka-dvorak

FROM RUSALKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIXwBgmFM7k

http://www.laopera.net/dvorak/rusalka-antonin-dvorak

The opera in three acts Rusalka is an opera in 3 acts written by Antonin Dvorak with a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil. It is a free adaptation of the story "The Little Mermaid" 
by Hans Christian Andersen.

RUSALKA:

In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural: rusalki or rusalky) is a female ghost, 

water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that often dwelt in a waterway.

Rusalka in Russian folklore appears as a beautiful maiden 
or assumes the form of a siren: 

a half women and half-bird or half-fish.

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  SUBDIVISION BY 8TH NOTES
2.  SILENT NIGHT
3.  PACHELBEL JOLLY
4.  RUDOLPH

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  VIOLIN
a. Open String Left Hand Pizzicato
1)  Plucking 4x each string with 1st finger
2)  Open String Song: CRIPPLE CREEK
3)  Open String Song: BATMAN

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  SCALES
a.  G, D, A Scale
b.  Bow at UH and LH
2.  GREENSLEEVES
a.  Note Reading
2.  Playing the entire piece

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SCALE
a.  Concert D Major Scale
1)  Winds separate articulation
2. Strings shifting using 1st finger on the D string

2.  BELIEVE

3.  TUMBALALAIKA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013

QUOTE:
“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”

AUTHOR: Edgard Varese

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Sometimes artists create art which is not understood by the general public.”

COMPOSER
DVORAK

Dvorak Symphony No.7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._7_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)

Conducted by Pierre Monteux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXf0DcX8lO8&feature=related

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  SUBIDIVISION BY 8TH NOTES
2.  SILENT NIGHT
3.  PACHELBEL/JOLLY

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Left hand Pizzicato
b.  Establishing left violin angle

HILLVIEW
1.  RECORDER TO KEYBOARD SONGS
a.  Note reading 
b.  Playing songs on the keyboard

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  OPEN STRINS
a.  7 Bow Levels
b.  UH of bow
c.  LH of bow
2.  GREENSLEEVES
a.  Fingering Concepts Part 2
b. Worked on playing Part 2
c.  Played entire piece with accompaniment
3.  JINGLE BELLS MELODY

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SILENT NIGHT
2.  PACHELBEL/JOLLY
3.  JINGLEBELL ROCK
4.  RUDOLPH

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

QUOTE:
“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, 

  it was transformed for me into love.”

AUTHOR: Franz Schubert

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Our emotions come out in our music. Many of these emotions 

  are closely related.”

COMPOSER
DVORAK

Dvorak Symphony No. 8
G major

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)

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

LESSON PLAN
http://www.rpo.org/UserFiles/File/PDF/intermediate_05_06/Dvorak2.pdf

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  SUBDIVISION OF THE BEAT 
COUNTING ASSIGNMENT
2.  SCALE
a.  E Major 1st finger shifting on one string
b.  E Major 1st finger shifting in intervals on one string
3.  FELIZ NAVIDAD
4.  JINGLE BELL ROCK
5.  SILENT NIGHT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Reviewed parts
b.  Quiz on parts
c.  Assignment of instruments
d.  Putting on shoulder rests and left violin hold

HILLVIEW
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Left pizzicato review
b.  Note reading open strings
b.  Left pizzicato song: CRIPPLE CREEK

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  FINGERING
a.  Do-Re-Mi/Do-Re-May each string
b.  Major (happy) versus Minor (sad)
2.  GREENSLEEVES (HARMONY)
a.  Fingering concepts
b.  Played first section
3.  JOY TO THE WORLD BY ROTE

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SUBDIVISION OF THE BEAT 
COUNTING ASSIGNMENT
2.  SCALE
a.  Concert G Major
b.  Played in 2 and 3 part rounds
3.  DOUBLE TONGUING DEMONSTRATION
4.  BELIEVE
5.  FELIZ NAVIDAD

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013

QUOTE:
“Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger 

  and argument.”

AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Do not let critics stop you from creating your art. Ignore their negative 

  comments if the comments are not constructive ones.”

COMPOSER

DVORAK

American Quartet
Prazak Quartet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-kbAydcwk&feature=related

Joachim Quartet performing in the Berlin Singakademie.
Engraving after painting by Felix Possart, c. 1900 

I was absent today so I had the substitute play a musical film for all my classes:  "The King and I"

http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2011/09/king-and-i.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013

QUOTE:
“Art is a kind of illness.”

AUTHOR: Giacomo Puccini

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A true artist is addicted to his art.”

COMPOSER

DVORAK

Cello Concerto

Thomas Eakins: The Cello Player

Complete with Orchestra Adam Liu, Cello

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

Howard Everett Smith: The Cello Recital

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  TUBALALAIKA

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  KEYBAORD
a.  Pentatonic Song Quiz
b.  Students at Keyboards
1)  Practice for quiz
2) Practice recorder songs to be played on the keyboard worked on yesterday
HILLVIEW
1.  THEORY: Lines and Spaces
a.  Completed theory packets

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  OPEN STRINGS
a.  Lifted UP bows at the tip
b.  7 Bow levels
2.  JINGLE BELLS
a.  Worked on note reading
b.  Worked on concept of fingering
c.  Played song on the violin while singing the note names out loud

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
SECTIONALS FIRST 20 MINUTES
1.  Bb Instruments practicing Believe and Tumbalalaika
2.  Flutes practicing Greensleeves
3.  Saxophones practicing as needed in a practice room
4.  Everyone else working on keyboard booklets at keyboards
EVERYONE TOGETHER LAST 20 MINUTES
1.  BELIEVE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination 

  that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”

AUTHOR: Richard Wagner

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Creativity starts first in your imagination."

COMPOSER 

DVORAK

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

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

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

ANALYSIS BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79D5sOD5duE

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  8TH NOTE SUBDIVISION
2.  SCALE
a.  G Major in rounds
3.  BELIEVE

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  RECORDER TO KEYBOARD SONGS
a.  Wrote in names of notes
b.  Practiced at keyboards
2.  PENTATONIC SONGS
a.  Practice for tomorrows quiz
HILLVIEW
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Practice putting on shoulder rests
b.  Worked on holding instruments on shoulders without hand
c.  Started left hand pizzicato of open strings in 5th position

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  SCALES
a.  Open string scales G, D, and A Major UH bow
2.  JOY TO THE WORLD
a.  Played by rote
b.  Worked on all the passages and put together

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA

1.  8TH NOTE SUBDIVISION
2.  SCALE
a.  D Major with 1st finger shifiting in strings/separate for winds
3.  TUMBALALAIKA
3.  BELIEVE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013

QUOTE:
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a 

  thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Beethoven thinks he is unique, better than others. Through 

arrogant, his ego helped him produce beautiful music."

COMPOSER

COPLAND

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Lincoln Portrait
Narrated by Gregory Peck
Slide Show Produced by James Ayala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpocnsH3D7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWeXfTsjuA&feature=related

LeRoy Neiman

Lincoln Portrait
Narrated by Henry Fonda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sv4Xzyn0wk

Marsden Hartley

LESSON PLAN

Aaron Copland and Lincoln Portrait

http://www.newhavensymphony.org/uploads/File/2012%20YPC%20Curriculum%20Guide.pdf

© Education Through Music, Inc. May be reproduced for educational purposes.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

Social Studies: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War

AIM

Students will explore how music can create mood by listening, discussing and writing.

MATERIALS

Recording with excerpts

Information worksheet

Lyric sheet

ASSESSMENT

Read, correct and review homework assignments.

PROCEDURE

1.

Review music vocabulary: 

piano, forte, crescendo, decrescendo, dolce.

2.

Ask the question to the class: 

“Can music express emotion or feeling? 

How? 

Give examples.” 

Write responses on the board.

3.

Introduce American composer Aaron Copland. 

Write his name, dates, and Lincoln Portrait on the board. 

Hand out information worksheet and read aloud or silently.

4.

Listen to two short excerpts: 

the beginning of Appalachian Spring or the Clarinet Concerto 

and the beginning of Fanfare for the Common Man. 

Play the first 30 seconds of each. 

After listening to each ask students to use two words to describe how the music “felt.” 

Write responses on the board.

5.

Copland wrote another piece called Lincoln Portrait.

What is a portrait?

Can music be a portrait?

How?

6.

Create asemantic web for Abraham Lincoln.

Ask children to provide information about Lincoln

(16th president, very tall, had a beard, freed the slaves,

Civil War, assassinated, penny and five dollar bill, etc.).

7.

Ask students to listen to the beginning of the work and to

raise their hand when they hear something unusual (narrator).

Play the beginning of Lincoln Portrait.

8.

What do you call someone who tells a story?

In the Lincoln Portrait, Copland has chosen to have a narrator speak during the music.

Who do you think he is going to speak about?

Whose words will he use?

9.

Pass out the lyrics sheet.

Listen to the excerpt and point out changes in mood.

Pause occasionally to make a point or ask about the mood of the music.

10.

Review assignment for homework.

Young People’s Concert

NHSO

http://discoveryorchestra.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Copland-Lincoln-Portrait.pdf

Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, ca. 1934

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1. E MAJOR SCALE
a.  Shifting on one string ascending
b.  FINGERING:1 2 , 12, 1 2, 12
c.  Use of GUIDE NOTES
2.  TUMBALALAIKA

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1. KEYBOARD
a. PENTATONIC BLACK KEY SONGS
b. EAR TRAINING

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  OPEN STRING BOWING
a.  7 Bow Levels UH bow
b.  Rhythm:  My Sis-ter Mar-cy for slow and fast bows
2.  JINGLE BELLS
a.  Harmony
1)  Explanation of harmony and melody
2) JINGLE BELLS OPEN STRING PART: MUSIC NOTATION
3)  JINGLE BELLS OPEN STRING and 1ST FINGER PART: MUSIC NOTATION (fingering perfect 5ths)
4)  Reviewed counting: quarters and 8ths
5)  Reviewed note reading
a.  Harmony and Melody 
1)  Class divided in half with one side playing melody and the other playing open string
harmony then they reverse
2)  Class divided in half with one side playing melody and the other playing open string and first finger harmony then they reverse
2)  Class divided into 3 parts (melody, and 2 harmony parts)
and played together 

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  SCALE: G CONCERT
a.  Explanation of "tremelo"
b.  Strings played tremelo on each note of scale
c.  Winds played single notes
d.  Drums performed rolls
2.  TUMBALALAIKA

George P.A. Healy

Mathew B. Brady

John Wesley Jarvis, 1861