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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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Category Archives: cello
Good King Wenceslas Recital Photos
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Tagged cello, piano, recital, violin
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Playing Music with 2 Flats
In A Year of Folk Tunes, November’s key of the month is B Flat Major and G 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, digital sheet music, music, piano, sheet music, sheetmusic, string trio, viola, violin
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The Erie Canal with swing
The October song in A Year of Folk Tunes is the Erie Canal. Some students caught on quickly and so we worked on swing for the rest of the month. Listen to how it turned out. Video performance of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Erie Canal, photo album, video performance
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Sound Explorers
We began a deep dive into B flat major and G Minor. We worked on one octave scales and arpeggios and Simple Gifts, the song of the month in A Year of Folk Tunes. If you missed it, you can … Continue reading
Sound Explorers Learn Parson’s Farewell
Here’s the video if you missed it. Let me know if you’d like the sheet music.
Playing Music with 3 Flats
In A Year of Folk Tunes, October’s key of the month is E Flat Major and C 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, digital sheet music, music, piano, sheet music, viola, violin
Tagged C Minor, E Flat Major, supplemental music for strings
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Sound Explorers 10/4
Today we worked on the October scales, E flat major and C minor. We also did some physical stretches for ease in playing. If you missed it, catch up with the video.
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
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Tagged A Flat Major, cello, F minor, piano, viola, violin
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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
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