Purple Magic Lesson 7
Your kiddos learned a lot of big stuff this week and some of them are still trying to get a hold on what we’ve learned the past several weeks. Please take some time to sit with your child and figure out all the songs on their practice list together. You want your child to be confident and successful in class, and they need your help!
A few big things to take note of:
Alouette Showtime this week – send me a video of your child playing it on Marco Polo
Your kiddos learned F Major cadence today, so they will need help solidifying C Maj, C min, and F Maj at home. The biggest difference is the POSITION of the F Maj cadence – hands are placed on F’s instead of C’s.
Watch out for the B-flat in the BLUE chord!
F Major Cadence
How exciting to play our primary chords in a new key! We will learn to strengthen and stretch our fingers in a new way. The fingerings will feel familiar, but we will also need to use our newly acquired knowledge about ‘magic keys’ as well as our ear training to play our chords correctly.
A Royal Problem
Like all of our puppet shows, ‘A Royal Problem’ (Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor, 3rd movement) aids in the intelligent listening of classical music. We learned to recognize major and minor tonalities, staccato and legato themes, and continued our study of classical ABA (ternary) form.
Our Royal Problem puppet show is really the 3rd Movement of Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This work has elicited varying interpretations from critics, but the most common perception today is that the symphony is tragic in tone and intensely emotional. Watch a full orchestra performance below (click here if video doesn’t display below). As you watch with your student, ask them to label the A (problem) and B (not a problem) section for you. This will prepare them for their homework next week.
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