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Adult Cello Choir Holiday Gigs 2019

Here is the holiday music for any gigs this season. Land of our Fathers and Pirates of the Caribbean are also game, if all the parts are covered.

For the Holiday Concert Dec. 15 at 4pm, we will play:
Joy to the World
Chanukah
We Three Kings
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

For Nemours on 12/27 at 11am, we will play everything below IN THIS ORDER. Here is a document with directions for arriving at Nemours: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UXAvBoKdU7aFWxgUPDDUwucCcgXMIYaVdsiFauK6F9Y/edit?usp=sharing Please arrive by 10:45am and wear black, white and/or red. Festive holiday accessories are encouraged. Bring a stand and a chair if you are picky about what you sit on.

Please note that I found a new quartet version of Silent Night, and it is linked below. I changed the part assignments, also, so please check the document. I replaced The Holly and the Ivy with a corrected version Phil sent me, so please reprint it and Silent Night.

Part assignments

Joy to the World
quarter = 92

We Three Kings
quarter = 156

Jingle Bells Score
quarter = 96

Away in a Manger
quarter = 136

Angels We Have Heard on High
quarter = 120

The Holly and the Ivy
quarter = 84. Also, for third cellos, mm. 4, 12 and first ending please change your first note to a half note G. In the second ending, change the quarter to an F# (one step higher than the current E) and the half note to a G on the D string. I will figure this out later, but this works for now.

O Come All Ye Faithful
quarter = 120

Good King Wenceslas
half = 96

Jolly Old St Nicholas
half = 88

Silent Night
eighth = 126 or dotted quarter = 42

Little Drummer Boy
quarter = 120

The First Nowell
quarter = 100

Frosty the Snowman
quarter = 152

We Wish You a Merry Christmas
quarter = 150

Chanukah (sorry, the third page is the same as the first. Print only 2 pages)
quarter = 112

Dreydl
half = 116

Adult Cello Class assignment for 3/27 (no class 3/20!)

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Aura Lee/forward extensions video

Countdowns video

Aura Lee play-through video

Dona Nobis Pacem video

Moon Over the Ruined Castle video

Adult Cello Class Assignment for 3/6 & 3/13

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Please prepare up through p. 43 in Essential Elements and the music above that we didn’t get to in class.

Skills discussed thus far in class:

Posture, Left and right hand/arm shape and movements, block fingering, soft thumbs, soft fingers on bow hand, bow contact (being able to silently wiggle the string with your bow before beginning to play), scales (D Major and G Major), hooked and slurred bowings, differing bow speeds, changing arm angles when going to a new string, rolling (not lifting) bow from string to string, time signatures and subdivisions in duple and triple (compound) meter, introduction to shifting (Countdowns.)

I will post a video of Countdowns soon.

Adult Cello Choir Music Spring 2019

Part assignments for Quartets:

1. Violins

2. Bea, Teal

3. Patti, Phil

4. Brian, Jennifer

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Part assignment for Boismortier Sonata

1. Bea, Teal, Jennifer

2. Patti, Brian, Phil

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Fantasy on German Folk Tunes

We will perform this on the GRADUATION RECITAL, Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 6:30pm.

Part 1: Farren, Amir, Ella, Sophia, Nathan, Mr. Eric

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Videos for part 1:
Theme 1, part 1
Theme 1, part 2
Theme 1, complete
Theme 2, part 1
Theme 2, part 2
Theme 2, complete
Theme 3, part 1
Theme 3, part 2
Theme 3, complete

Part 2: Tristan, Curie, Elizabeth, Maxine

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Part 3: Ryan, Joshua, Aila, Raphael, Ms. Rowena

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Part 4: Pascal, Benjamin, Henry, Ms. Jennifer

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