Books I’m going to ask you to buy

When you have finished your Twinkles:
I Can Read Music (ages 3-6 get volume 1, 7+ get volume 2, adults don’t need this book)

When you are in Book 2:
Double Stops for Cello
Position Pieces for Cello, Book 1
Improve Your Sight Reading, grades 1-3

When you are in Book 3:
Canons and Rounds (for cello ensemble)
Improve Your Sight Reading, grades 4-5

When you are in Book 4:
Ensembles for Cello
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Scaling the Tenor Clef Dragon (up to age 8) or Learning the Tenor Clef (older students and adults)
Position Pieces for Cello, Book 2
Thumb Position for Cello

Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation

You may download mp3 files of the pitches one at a time, or buy the whole album. If you have Apple Music, search ‘”Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation by Marcia Sloane” and you can stream this album for free.

https://smile.amazon.com/Drones-Improvisation-Musicians-Practice-Partner/dp/B001OS6R0Y/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g8217842112?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8

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

Jingle Bells Part 1

Jingle Bells Part 2

Jingle Bells Part 3

Jingle Bells Part 4

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 3/6 & 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.

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

Play-through practice video

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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Adult Cello Choir @ Raymour & Flanigan Wed. Dec. 19, 7pm

Here is the holiday music for the gig. Probably we won’t play all of them. (I’ll let you know which ones soon.) They are very short, so we will probably play most of them. Plan to play ALL of the Trio Tapestry selections, please.

Part assignments

Joy To The World

Jolly Old St Nicholas

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

The First Nowell

Good King Wenceslas

Silent Night-Holly and Ivy (print two of these)

Dreydl

Angels We Have Heard on High

Away in a Manger

Jingle Bells

We Three Kings of Orient Are

O Come All Ye Faithful

We Wish You a Merry Christmas