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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 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.
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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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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.
Amazing Grace for Viola and Piano
An elegant new duet arrangement of Amazing Grace is now available. It is suitable for church or recital performance. The viola and the piano both have melodic sections. The viola part requires some shifting but doesn’t go higher than third … Continue reading
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Tagged amazing grace, piano, sheet music, viola
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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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Summer Sound Explorers 6/28
Play along with the video for extra practice in half position and the key of B. This morning we worked on arpeggios, Shenandoah and Catch Me if You Can.
Catch You Later, Playing Music with 5 sharps!
F Sharp, C Sharp, G Sharp, D Sharp, A Sharp …. B is still natural, and E is natural. In A Year of Folk Tunes, June’s key of the month is B Major and G Sharp Minor. It’s not a key … Continue reading
Posted in cello, music, piano, sheet music, string trio, teaching, viola, violin
Tagged B Major, cello, G Sharp Minor, piano, sheet music, viola, violin
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Bird Rounds for String Ensemble and Optional Piano
The bird canons for string ensemble are in E Major and C Sharp Minor. The rounds have one part doubled so they would be playable with only two parts. In score form, each tune also has an optional piano part … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustan Club Waltz Sheet Music, C Sharp Minor, Canon, cello, E Major, instructional, piano, viola, violin
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Miriam Troxler 