Showing posts with label musical form. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musical form. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2013

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013

QUOTE:
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Some artists can never rest until they are allowed to express themselves.”










COMPOSER
DEBUSSY


Nocturnes
Conductor: Charles Dutoit

Nocturne: 
This is a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
In music it is an instrumental composition of a
 dreamy or pensive character.

"Nocturne" by Nuncques

"Nocturne: Grey and Silver" by Whistler



GENERAL MUSIC
01.  COMPLETED OVERVIEW OF RULES
........a.  PASSED OUT SYLLABUS FOR STUDENTS TO READ and GET SIGNED BY PARENTS
02.  MUSICAL FORM and MATH IN THE SONG "THE BEAT GOES ON"
........a.  COUNTED THE AMOUNT OF QUARTER BEATS (PULSES) IN THE ENTIRE SONG
........b.  BEATS DIVIDED INTO MEMORABLE MUSICAL PATTERNS OR MELODY SECTIONS
........c.  BEATS WERE GRAFTED ON THE PAGE USING DIFFERENT COLORS FOR EACH MUSICAL               PATTERN
........d.  THE DIFFERENT PATTERNS EASILY MADE VISABLE THE MUSICAL FORM OF THE SONG 
             (INTRO/A/B/C/A/B/C/A/B/C/CODA)
........e.  THE SONG HAD AN INTRODUCTION (BEGINNING) MIDDLE and A "CODA" (END)
..............1)  A SONG HAS FORMAT LIKE A STORY IN A BOOK OR A MOVIE
..............2)   THERE IS A BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END (SORT-OF LIKE A SANDWICH HAS 2                               SLICES OF BREAD WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS INSIDE)
........f.   THE NUMBER OF BEATS IN EACH SECTION FORMED A MATHEMATICAL PATTERN
........g.  STUDENTS COUNTED THE BEATS IN EACH SECTION and PERFORMED DIFFERENT BODY                PERCUSSION ACTIONS FOR THE DIFFERENT COLORED SECTIONS
........h.  STUDENTS THEN ASKED TO STOP COUNTING and BY USING THEIR EARS DETERMINE                  WHEN THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS STARTED DISPLAYED BY THEIR USE OF THE                            DIFFERENT BODY PERCUSSION MOVEMENTS

ADV. STRINGS
01. PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN
.......a.  PULLED OUT A DIFFICULT RHYTHMIC PASSAGE AND INTELLECTUALIZED THE                               COUNTING NUMERICALLY, COUNTED and CLAPPED IT, THEN INCREASED THE SPEED OF             THE PASSAGE, THEN ELIMINATED THE COUNTING and "TAH-ED" THE PASSAGE TO                     TRANSFER THE RHYTHM AS AN AUTOMATIC REFLEX
.......b.  PLAYED THE ENTIRE PIECE
02.  MY HEART GOES ON

BEG. STRINGS
01.  MY HEART GOES ON (MELODY)
........a.  DEMONSTRATION OF THE MUSIC
........b.  SIGHT READ
........c.  REVIEW OF MUSICAL ROAD SIGNS
........d.  READ THROUGH AGAIN
02.  PARADISE (HARMONY)

Thursday, August 30, 2012

AUGUST 30-31, 2012 THURSDAY-FRIDAY,

QUOTE: 
“Think more of your own progress than of the opinion of others.”
AUTHOR: Felix Mendelssohn
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“In the end, what only matters is what you think of yourself.”





COMPOSER
CHOPIN

Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66
Played by Horowitz 

a style of music roughly beginning in the Romantic Period written for a solo instrument, typically the piano, that is improvisational in sound. The music was written "off the cuff" so to speak and is loosely performed and interpreted. 

a composition free in form and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist

IMPROVISATION
the creative activity of spontaneous  ("in the moment") musical composition

CLASSIC: Something judged over a period of time (often lasting through generations) to be of the highest quality and outstanding. 


This is a modern version of Chopin's classic piece:

Judy Garland - "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"


GENERAL MUSIC
01.   PROCEDURES
02.   "WHAT IS SILENCE" WORKSHEET CONTINUED (TO BE DISCUSSED LATER)
03a.  ECHO TECHNIQUE: "COME PLAY THE STICK GAME" REVIEW
03b.  ECHO TECHNIQUE:  TO A PULSE EACH STUDENT PERFORMS A 2-MEASURE 
          RHYTHMIC PATTERN AND THE CLASS ECHOS (IMPROVISATION)
04.    ELEMENTS OF MUSIC WE ARE ALL EXPERTS AT: BEAT, RHYTHM, PITCH
05.    LEARNING RULES ON HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE RECORDER TO MUSIC  
          USING "PIGGY-BACK" LYRICS I WROTE TO THE FAMOUS 1967 POP TUNE: 






05.  USING "THE BEAT GOES ON" TUNE, INVESTIGATE THE "MUSICAL FORM" OF 
       THE PIECE BY UTILIZING A MATHEMATICAL COLORED GRAPH OF THE BEATS 
       WITH COLORS ARRANGED BY PATTERNS OF SOUNDS (MELODIC PATTERNS) 
       ALSO SHOWING HOW MUSIC IS MATH
  
ADV. STRINGS 
01.  PROCEDURES/RULES ON HOW TO TAKE INSTRUMENTS OUT OF CLOSET AND 
       PUT THEM BACK (PRACTICE)
02.  SET-UP STANDS AND PASS OUT MUSIC (SELECTION OF LIBRARIAN?)
03.  PLAYING IF TIME: 
.......a.  OPEN STRING BOWING AND ECHO BOWING 
.......b.  "HOE DOWN" REVIEW (FOR DOUBLE STOPPING AND SPICCATO BOWING)
.......c.  SIGHT READ THROUGH "ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL"

BEG. STRINGS
01.   GO OVER RULES AND ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THEM 
02a. SHORT HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN 



02b. INTRODUCTION TO THE VIOLIN FAMILY OF INSTRUMENTS

03a. DEMONSTRATION OF A MONOCHORD
03b. DEMONSTRATION OF A EHRU
03c. DEMONSTRATION OF A REBEC
03d. DEMONSTRATION OF VIELLE (http://stringtechnique.com/history/02.html)
04.   REVIEW VIOLIN PARTS and CARE OF INSTRUMENT