Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Sheet Music - Snowfall


Snowfall is an easy piece in F major designed for the late elementary student. It is set in 4/4 time. The melody is in the right hand and explores different intervals.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - Modern Music

"Elgar's music is thoroughly English in its sturdy vigor and wholesome emotion." (location 4619, Kindle Edition)

"Our studies should have made plain two definite facts: first, that the real message of music is contained in its melody—that part of the fabric which we can carry with us and sing to ourselves." (location 4644, Kindle Edition)

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - National Schools

"To turn now to his achievements, it may be asserted that Tchaikowsky was marvellously versatile, composing in every form save for the organ."
(location 4254, Kindle Edition)

"The music is more or less, like many of Moussorgsky's songs, written in imitation of the old folk-songs, folk dances, ceremonial chants, and festival tunes."
(location 4482, Kindle Edition)

"Smetana's style is thoroughly original, his form is free yet coherent and he has a color sense and power of orchestral description peculiar to his race."
(location 4500, Kindle Edition)

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Modern French School

"Since d'Indy is on record as saying, 'There is in art, truly, nothing but the heart that can produce beauty,' it is evident that he believes in the emotional element in music."
(location 3979, Kindle Edition)

"This return to the greater flexibility and variety of the old modes is a significant feature in modern music and Debussy's example in this respect has been highly beneficial."
(location 4062, Kindle Edition)

"The French nature, which is highly emotional and yet, at its best, always controlled [304] by a regard for fitness and clarity of thought, is particularly suited to express itself worthily in music, for in no other form of artistic endeavor is this balance more requisite."
(location 4205, Kindle Edition)

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