Weill Music Institute Link Up A Program of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall for Students in Grades Three Through Five The Orchestra Student Guide Weill Music Institute Link Up A Program of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall for Students in Grades Three Through Five The Orchestra Student Guide AUTHOR Daniel Levy CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Cabaniss Laura Costa Amy Kirkland Deborah Mosier Maria Schwab Misty Tolle ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS Phil Bravo Heather Briere Stephanie Rodousakis Lisa Beth Vettoso EDITORS Carol Ann Cheung Jay Goodwin DESIGN Kat Hargrave Evelyn Ochoa ILLUSTRATION Sophie Hogarth AUDIO PRODUCTION Scott Lehrer Daniel Levy VIDEO PRODUCTION RPP Productions Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall 881 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-903-9670 | Fax: 212-903-0758 E-Mail: [email protected] carnegiehall.org/LinkUp Lead funding for Link Up is provided by the Robertson Foundation. Major support for Link Up has been provided by The Irene Diamond Fund, with additional funding from The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Wells Fargo, the Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, and The Barker Welfare Foundation. The Weill Music Institute’s programs are made available to a nationwide audience by an endowment grant from the Citi Foundation. © 2012 The Carnegie Hall Corporation. All rights reserved. Weill Music Institute This book belongs to: ICON KEY The Student Assessment Icon indicates worksheets you can use to track your progress throughout the year. Performance icons indicate on which instrument(s) you can prepare and perform each piece of Link Up repertoire. Some selections are for one instrument only, while others can be sung or played. The Singing Icon indicates that you can sing the piece at the culminating concert. The Recorder and Violin Icon indicates that you can play the piece on soprano recorder or violin at the culminating concert. The Recorder Star Icon indicates that the piece is geared toward more experienced recorder players. Advanced violin players can also play these parts. SGUNIT 1 Meet Thomas Cabaniss, Our Guide I’m Tom, a composer and your host for Link Up: The Orchestra Moves. Composers create musical movement using motifs, melodic direction, steps and leaps, dynamics, and orchestration. Your challenge is to discover ways you think the orchestra moves. During your time with The Orchestra Moves, I hope you’ll begin each session by singing my song “Come to Play.” I wrote it with you in mind. SG 2 Preparing to Play the Recorder When playing the recorder, there are two basic positions: rest position and playing position. Rest Position Playing Position Place your recorder in your lap Hold your recorder up and ready or let it hang from its lanyard. to play. The left hand is on top, and the right hand is below. Recorder Checklist Hands: Holes: Lips: Breath: left hand on top finger hole(s) lips not too hard, completely sealed covering teeth not too soft SG 3 Unlocking Music Notation Notated music is made up of symbols. Use the decoders below to decode the music you are learning. Music Decoder Time signature Rest Note stem Staff } } Measure Clef Bar line Note head Note Decoder middle D E F G A B high high C C D SG 4 Preparing to Play the Recorder e e e NotationNotationNotation Examples Examples Examples pg pg pg93-98 93-98 93-98 [Composer][Composer][Composer] B e e e A G NotationNotationNotation Examples Examples Examples pg pg pg93-98 93-98 93-98 [Composer][Composer][Composer] & &&œ œ œ pagepage 93page note 93 93 note note 5 5 5 œ œ œ & &&œ œ œ &&& pagepage 94page note 94 94 note note pagepage 93page 93 note note 93 note 10 1010 5 5 5 & && &&& œ œ œ pg96œ lowpg96 #1Eœpg96 œE #1 #1 pagepage 94page 94F note 94note note F# 14 1414 10 10 10 & && &&&œ œ œ pg96œ pg96 #2œpg96œ #2 #2 pg96pg96 #1pg96 #1 #1 18 1818 14 14 14 & && &&& pg96œ pg96 #3œpg96œ #3 #3 pg96œpg96œ #2pg96œ #2 #2 22 2222 18 18 18 & &&#œ #œ#œ &&& pg98pg98 #1pg98 #1 #1 pg96œpg96œ #3pg96œ #3 #3 22 22 22 26 2626 &&&#œ#œ #œ & && pg98pg98 #1pg98 #1 #1 26 26 26 29 2929 & && &&& 29 29 29 &&& SG 5 Parts of the Recorder Mouthpiece D high D Body middle C } high C middle C Bell SG 6 One-Note Songs 1. 2. Staff Paper 3. Staff Paper My One-Note Songs 5 5 9 9 13 13 17 17 21 21 25 25 29 29 SGSG 7 Two-Note Songs 1. 2. Staff Paper 3. Staff Paper My Two-Note Songs 5 5 9 9 13 13 17 17 21 21 25 25 29 29 SG 8 Three-Note Songs 1. 2. 3. Staff Paper SGSGStaff9 Paper My Three-Note Songs Staff Paper 5 Staff Paper My5 Patterns 9 Staff Paper 9 5 13 5 913 5 17 9 1317 9 21 13 1721 13 25 17 2125 17 29 21 2529 21 25 29 25 29 29 SG 10 Come to Play Thomas Cabaniss mf SGSG 11 SG 12 mp mp SGSG 13 mp SG 14 Piano interlude mf mf mf SGSG 15 f f f SG 16 How Am I Doing? Date: Work Title: “Come to Play” Composer: Thomas Cabaniss Mark on the lines below how you feel about Goals your progress on each goal. Clapping the rhythm Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! Singing or playing the music Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! Singing or playing the music with Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! different dynamics What is one goal above that you would like to improve on? What are some things you can do to make the improvement? 1. 2. 3. Listening Mark on the lines below how you feel the composer used each tool. Dynamics No surprises Lots of surprises Steps No steps Lots of steps Leaps No leaps Lots of leaps Articulation Legato Staccato Melodic direction Descending Ascending Motif Not developed Well developed SG SG 17 Blue Danube The Blue Danube Johann Strauss II 1 A beau -- ti ful 24 stream so clear and blue A 27 beau -- ti ful dream of me and 30 you The stars seem to float a - 33 bove the sky With us as we 36 go they fly so high. We're 39 up in the air up in the 42 air As high as we dare high 45 as we dare We'll ne - ver come 48 down we will stay Blue Danube 1 A beau -- ti ful 24 stream so clear and blue A 27 beau -- ti ful dream of me and 30 you The stars seem to float a - 33 bove the sky With us as we 36 go they fly so high. We're 39 up in the air up in the 42 air As high as we dare high 45 SG 18 as we dare We'll ne - ver come 48 down Scorewe will stay 51 Un- til night be - comes the 54 day! Second time only 71 A beau -- ti ful stream so 74 clear and blue A beau -- ti ful 77 dream of me and you The 80 stars seem to float a - bove the 83 sky, With us as we go they 86 fly so high We're up in the 89 air up in the air as Score 51 Un- til night be - comes the 54 day! 71 A beau -- ti ful stream so 74 clear and blue A beau -- ti ful 77 dream of me and you The 80 stars seem to float a - bove the 83 SGSG 19 sky, With us as we go they 86 fly so high We're up in the 89 air up in the air as Score 92 high as we dare high as we 95 dare We'll ne - ver come down 98 we will stay Un- til 101 night be - comes the day. Ba -- dum bum! SG 20 Blue Danube The Blue Danube Johann Strauss II 1 26 29 32 35 38 41 44 47 54 Blue Danube 1 26 29 32 35 38 41 44 47 SGSG 21 54 Score 59 62 68 71 74 77 80 83 86 Score 59 62 68 71 74 77 80 SG22 83 86 Score 89 92 95 102 SGSG 23 How Am I Doing? Work Title: The Blue Danube Composer: Johann Strauss II Date: Mark on the lines below how you feel about Goals your progress on each goal. Clapping the rhythm Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! Singing or playing the music Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! Singing or playing the music with Hmm, difficult. Ha, easy! different dynamics What is one goal above that you would like to improve on? What are some things you can do to make the improvement? 1. 2. 3. Listening Mark on the lines below how you feel the composer used each tool. Dynamics No surprises Lots of surprises Steps No steps Lots of steps Leaps No leaps Lots of leaps Articulation Legato Staccato Melodic direction Descending Ascending Motif Not developed Well developed SG 24 Nocturne from ANocturne Midsummer Night's Dream from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Felix Mendelssohn 1 4 7 10 13 16 28 31 Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream 1 4 7 10 13 16 28 SG SG 25 31 34 37 40 43 2 SGSG26 Nocturne from ANocturne Midsummer Night's Dream from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Felix Mendelssohn 1 4 7 10 13 16 27 30 Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream 1 4 7 10 13 16 27 SGSGSG 27 30 33 36 39 42 2 SG 28 How Am I Doing? Date: Work Title: Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Mark on the lines below how you feel about Goals your progress on each goal.