Purple Magic Lesson 10
This was a jam packed lesson – as always, please help your kiddo solidify what they learned in class at home. They won’t be able to do this alone.
Be sure to always send your child with their music and workbook because we make many notes on the music in class and we fill out the dictation at the beginning of the book, so they really need to have their own music each week in class.
We also had a few families neglect to send a Showtime video to me via Marco Polo. When this happens I must take a few minutes in class for each student to go over their Showtime song. As a result, I wasn’t able to complete all the necessary activities in one of my classes today. Please help me out by sending the Showtime videos when they are mentioned in the homework booklet. Thank you!!
We learned to play the C Major scale hands together! This will need lots of monitoring and support at home.
We learned the 3rd part to The Song of Joy. It is Left Hand only, and will mainly utilize the Bass Space notes we learned last week. Any notes not included in that have been written in your child’s book. Pay special attention to the 2nd line on the 2nd page. Tricky! Let me know if you need help with it.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
This familiar childhood song is a great way to learn about theme and variation. You can still hear the main theme in each of the variations, it is just sort of disguised in different ways each time. As we continue to study this song throughout the semester we will discover that it is ALSO written in our classical ABA form, and will help our fingers play in an extended C position.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is one of the most popular English nursery rhymes. It combines the tune of the 1761 French melody “Ah ! vous dirai-je, Maman” with an English poem, “The Star”, by Jane Taylor.
It is often thought that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the original writer of this melody. Reinforced by its appearance as a “correct answer” in the original edition of Trivial Pursuit and “Snapple Facts” (among others), many believe that the song was written by Mozart when he was four or five years old. Mozart was this age at the time the original French melody was written. Much later in his life, he did write 12 variations on the original theme– which we hear on our CD! Check out this parrot singing his OWN variation of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star!
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