Mystery Composer 2013

Listen to the audio clip of this year’s Mystery Composer. Submit the name of the composer and the work by email or on paper at your lesson. (25 points)

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Symbol Saturday

symbol 1Do you know what this musical symbol is? Draw it and write your answer in your notebook and bring it to your next lesson. (1 point)

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Five Facts

Today’s Point Contest challenge is find five facts about a musical instrument. Submit your five facts in the comments. (5 points)

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Write a Song

1. Print the staff paper.
2. Draw your clef at the beginning of the first staff.
3. Draw your time signature. For today’s project, make it 4/4 time.
4. Pick 5 notes. Using quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes, fill 8 measures with your notes. Remember to put a barline after every 4 counts. Remember to put your clef at the beginning of each staff you use. Put a double barline at the end of your song.
5. Add a title.

Be ready to play it and bring it to your lesson. (25 points) Double points for violists who write in treble clef and cellists who write in tenor clef.

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Seeing Intervals

Part of reading music quickly is the ability to see intervals. The most basic part of this skill is being able to tell if the note is a line note or a space note. For a line note, a line runs through the center of the note head. With a space note, the note is between lines on the staff.

Print the Line or Space worksheet. Write L under the line notes and S below the space notes. Bring it to your next lesson or submit by email. (2 points)

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Tempo Tuesday

Presto

Define the musical tempo. Submit your answer by email or on paper at your next lesson. (2 points)

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Listening

One way to improve your musicianship is to listen to great performances. During point contest, classical music listening is worth 1 point per hour.  Remember to record it on your listening chart.

It is easy to incorporate more music into your daily routine. Eating dinner as a family, add a CD playing to the meal. Commuting? Add some music to your route.  Do you have to clean your room before school starts again? Try the classical music station on the radio (89.3 in the Pittsburgh area).  Tomorrow you could broaden your horizons and watch the Great Performances broadcast on PBS of the New Year’s Concert in Vienna.

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Point Contest 2013

Point contest begins January 1, 2013. For six weeks musical points are awarded at lessons. Each category has a first, second, and third place trophy winner.

Point Contest Rules

Follow the blog for tips and hints to get the most out of point contest.

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A Day in Pittsburgh – Heinz Hall

Leaving PPG Wintergarden, I made my way over to Heinz Hall. The garden adjacent to the building still had roses blooming.

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In December, it is very unusual to see such a flash of color.

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This is the sixth street entrance to Heinz Hall. All of the doors have green canopies above them.

120912 259 The canopies are painted inside and surrounded by light bulbs.

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Above the doors inside the canopies there are relief carvings.

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I took several pictures of the stonework near the top of the building.

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Another picture near the tree from the second floor balcony. 120912 275

Then looking down from the balcony.

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This is what the canopies look like from inside the building. The windows let in some natural light and you can  see the designs.

120912 276 The hall is very ornate with lots of gold leaf.120912 278The drinking fountains echo the themes of ancient sculptures.

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Turn a corner and there is a marble table and mirror.120912 281

Also from the second level, a picture of  one of the two main foyers.

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I arrived in the hall in time to listen to the preconcert lecture. I had an enjoyable time listening to the program. If you are curious, I heard Haydn’s Symphony No. 68, Mason Bates’ Violin Concerto with Anne Akiko Meyers as the soloist, and Saint-Saens’s Symphony No. 3. Leonard Slatkin was conducting.

After the concert, I retraced my steps back across the river.

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I was once again swimming against a sea of Steelers’ fans

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to meet everyone and head for home.

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Related posts

A Day in Pittsburgh – Part 1
A Day in Pittsburgh – Part 2
PPG Wintergarden
PPG Santas
PPG Gingerbread

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Blog of the Year 2012 Award

Thank-you Eunice http://nutsfortreasure.wordpress.com/ for nominating me for the Blog of the Year 2012 Award.

I am nominating the following blogs for the Blog of the Year 2012 Award.

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The ‘rules’ for this award are simple:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/   and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

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Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

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