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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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Tag Archives: A Year of Folk Tunes
A Round and A Round for Strings
Companion volumes to A Year of Folk Tunes are now available. Each key has four rounds for more practice in all twelve keys. A Round and A Round for Violin, A Round and A Round for Viola and A Round … Continue reading
Posted in cello, cello duets, string trio, viola, violin
Tagged A Year of Folk Tunes, Canon, chamber music, Learning to play in 12 keys, rounds
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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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Sound Explorers 8/9 Learn the chorus of Buffalo Gals
Today we reviewed the D Flat Major Scale. We learned the next part of Buffalo Gals by ear. Fingerings for violin, viola, cello and piano were demonstrated. If you missed it, catch up with the video.
Sound Explorers 8/2 Starting Buffalo Gals and D Flat Major
Today we began working on the D Flat Major Scale. We also started to learn Buffalo Gals in by ear. Fingerings for violin, viola, cello and piano were demonstrated to make it was easy to learn the D Flat Major … Continue reading
Posted in cello, music, piano, sound explorers, teaching, viola, violin
Tagged 5 flats, A Year of Folk Tunes, cello, D Flat Major, piano, viola, violin
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Sound Explorers 7/26
This morning we worked on the D Sharp harmonic minor scale, F Sharp Major Scale and G Flat Major Scale. We reviewed last week’s learn by ear harmony part for Yankee Doodle and played Yankee Doodle in F Sharp Major. … Continue reading
Posted in cello, music, piano, teaching, viola, violin
Tagged A Year of Folk Tunes, cello, D Sharp Harmonic Minor, F Sharp Major, G Flat Major, piano, viola, violin
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