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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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Little Tree Recital Photos
Posted in cello, music, Photo Album, piano, recital photos, viola
Tagged cello, music, piano, recital, viola
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Winter Break
Winter break is December 23 through January 7th. Point Contest begins January 1. Keep track of you listening! Work on memorizing and theory pages. Music Lessons resume Monday, January 8.
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
Tagged cello, music, sheet music, viola, violin
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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 Learn Spooky Scary Skeletons
Here’s the video if you need to get caught up.
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
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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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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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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