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miriamtroxler
Miriam Troxler resides in Beaver, Pa, where she runs a private music studio. After graduation from Chatham University, she toured in Europe with the Continental Singers Orchestra as principal cellist. A long time member of Greenville Symphony Orchestra, she is also the founder and musical director of CelloBrationS. Miriam enjoys composing and arranging with several published pieces to date.
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Playing music with 4 flats
In A Year of Folk Tunes, September’s key of the month is A Flat Major and F Minor. I wrote four rounds to help navigate this key. Everyone who played them, got a lot better at the hand positions required for … Continue reading
Posted in cello, composing, music, sheet music, sheetmusic, string trio, teaching, viola, violin
Tagged A Flat Major, cello, F minor, piano, viola, violin
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All the Pretty Little Horses Piano Solo
The sheet music for All the Pretty Little Horses is now available as a digital download. Included in A Year of Folk Tunes for Piano, the digital download version has A Flat Major warm-ups and preparatory studies to make it … Continue reading
Posted in piano, piano solo, sheet music, sheetmusic
Tagged F minor, folk tunes, lullaby, piano
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Buffalo Gals Piano Solo
The sheet music for Buffalo Gals is now available as a digital download. Included in A Year of Folk Tunes for Piano, the digital download version has D Flat Major warm-ups and preparatory studies to make it easier to learn … Continue reading
Posted in digital sheet music, piano, piano solo, sheetmusic
Tagged D Flat Major, folk tunes, piano
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Buffalo Gals
Listen on the viola. Here is the same tune on the cello. Buffalo Gals is the D Flat Major tune from A Year of Folk Tunes.
Posted in cello, music, performance, video scrapbook, viola
Tagged cello, D Flat Major, video scrapbook, viola
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All the Pretty Little Horses, Cello Fingerings
In the Year of Folk Tunes books, the tunes are not fingered. This allows the player to choose, which creates more integrated learning. Here is an example of a possible fingering. The focus, in this case, is to use more … Continue reading
Playing Music with 5 Flats
In A Year of Folk Tunes, August’s key of the month is D Flat Major and B Flat Minor. It’s not a key that shows up in a first- or second-year method book. However, when you need to be able to … Continue reading
Sound Explorers 8/23
On Wednesday we had a long play by ear session in D Flat. Then there was a quick review of Buffalo Gals from A Year of Folk Tunes. If you missed it, catch up with the video.
Posted in music, sound explorers, teaching
Tagged cello, ear training, learn by ear, piano, viola, violin
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Playing Duets with 6 Sharps
In A Year of Folk Tunes, July’s key of the month is F Sharp Major and D Sharp Minor. It’s not a key that shows up in a first- or second-year method book. However, when you need to be able to … Continue reading
Posted in cello, digital sheet music, music, string trio, teaching, viola, violin
Tagged A Year of Folk Tunes, cello, D Sharp Minor, F Sharp Major, piano, viola, violin
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Simple Gifts for String Quartet
This brand-new arrangement of Simple Gifts opens with a cello solo. The viola joins for a short duet before the other parts come in. The arrangement builds with the second violin and first violin each playing melody in the second … Continue reading
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Tagged sheet music, string quartet
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