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Music Theory
This is a good site for music theory information – particularly if for learning, you’d rather read than watch videos. I like that the practice exercises have the answers listed with each item concealed—then when you want the answer, you just click on it.
Chapter 5 covers intervals (mentioned in my prior post, #100)
Main content page:
https://musictheory.pugetsound.....heory.html
Table of Contents page – the “online text” link on this link is to same site listed above; other links on this page go directly to the practice exercises, etc., that you can download/print (you can print the individual exercises on the online text link as well).
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Jake Lizzio Music Theory Tutorials!
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Solfege
Found this solfege learning tool that allows you to change the tonic and visualize what you hear—thought it might be useful.
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Ear Training
I was just talking with my teacher about ear training, and then I got an email from Interlochen about some new courses they’ve got—and they now are including some ear training classes.
And, the two new ear training courses are being taught by the same instructor I had for the three Music Theory classes I took last year; talked about it here:
https://fiddlerman.com/forum/m.....s/#p141763
So, I think I may be doing an ear training class in September.
Interlochen online classes here:
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There are days when I think I don't sound any better than this 
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😅aint that the truth... well i feel that way about me not about you..
.today was an especially painful day. 😌
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ABitRusty said
😅aint that the truth... well i feel that way about me not about you..
.today was an especially painful day. 😌
that's ok, you can feel that way for the both of us 😆
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Duets
I’ve created and posted videos for the 7th tune, The Maypole, from the Applebaum Duet Bk1 in the Learning Thread:
https://fiddlerman.com/forum/l.....s/#p145492
There is an alternating pattern using different parts of the bow (above middle, below middle, & whole bow) for both violin parts.
I mention in the video that there is a similar exercise (for Violin 1) done in the Wohlfahrt Op45 Etudes, No 4, that’s available on IMSLP, linked here (and I attached a copy of page from IMSLP, too):
https://imslp.org/wiki/60_Stud.....rt,_Franz)
(in book 1, Etude Nos.1-30, #4)
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Strings & Poems
ELCBK has a topic, Rhymes & Poems of The Fiddle Family here:
https://fiddlerman.com/forum/o.....y/#p145500
So, thinking about poetry, I thought about Chaucer, and remembered finding this lady a few years ago who plays a vielle and recites/sings, in Middle English (Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, wrote in Middle English) in a style thought to be how it was done in that time period.
In the videos below, she sings lyrics from a poem entitled, The Tournament of Tottenham (an anonymous work thought to be from 1400-1440) while playing her vielle. I’ve posted both the 1-minute excerpt as well as the 15-minute full version.
If you put on the closed caption, you’ll see the modern English words.
1-minute Excerpt
15-minute Full Version
Synopsis of the poem is here:
https://medieval_literature.en.....ham%2C_The
The text of the poem is here (modernized, mostly):
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LOVE the poetry with Linda Marie Zaerr playing the vielle - works well together!
Holding the vielle against the chest - works nicely to free the jaw for speaking/singing.
The vielle in the video doesn't have it, but found it interesting some 5-string vielles have their 5th (low) string running up beside the fingerboard, bypassing the nut - into a hole in the side of the pegbox! It's used as an open drone, or plucked with the thumb, I believe. They call this a 'bourdon' (drones on hurdygurdy also called 'bourdon'), French for bumblebee.
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@SharonC -
WOW, that 1st one is AMAZING (will listen to more later)!
It really sounds beautiful - love it's not boring (I like being taken on an adventure)!
You're going to have your hands full... love the Bb key signature, but there's so many other accidentals - it's crazy (er...fun 😉).
Fabulous find! I'm really looking forward to hearing you & your teacher play this! 🥰
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ELCBK said
@SharonC -
. . .but there's so many other accidentals - it's crazy (er...fun 😉).
I know, right? Gm plus all the accidentals--I'm initially feeling a little lost trying to find my notes. That's okay, though. It doesn't sound like it looks to me--i.e., it looks like a mess with all the accidentals, but the sound makes sense.
Just need time for my brain to make the connections.
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@SharonC -
With the F#'s at the beginning, think you are starting out in 'G harmonic minor' - that raised 7th intensifies the drama.
I'm always mindful of the minor third, and it's not hard for me to think of squeezing close when resolving to the tonic, but out of those contexts I find it easier to just feel (and practice) the actual melodic contour... probably not much help to you. Think there's quite a bit of harmonic minor used in traditional Eastern European folk music.
It was fun to find Reinhold Gliere left quite a legacy of Russian style music, composed during the 'Romantic Era' (which has features I love) - was also Sergei Prokofiev's teacher! LOVE his 'Russian Sailor's Dance'!
Still think you picked a great piece! 🤗
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ELCBK said
@SharonC -
With the F#'s at the beginning, think you are starting out in 'G harmonic minor' - that raised 7th intensifies the drama.
I'm always mindful of the minor third, and it's not hard for me to think of squeezing close when resolving to the tonic, but out of those contexts I find it easier to just feel (and practice) the actual melodic contour... probably not much help to you. Think there's quite a bit of harmonic minor used in traditional Eastern European folk music.
It was fun to find Reinhold Gliere left quite a legacy of Russian style music, composed during the 'Romantic Era' (which has features I love) - was also Sergei Prokofiev's teacher! LOVE his 'Russian Sailor's Dance'!
Still think you picked a great piece! 🤗
@ELCBK Thanks--I do like the piece. And I like having it to practice along with my other (solo) Russian tune
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Violinist & Moth
As I was out this morning tending my hummingbirds, I spotted a large moth. It made me think of the few Luna moths I have seen over the years, but this one was brown (Lunas are green). My iphone Seek App told me it was a Polyphemus moth (a Luna moth relative).
From my yard:
Link to music? Yep—Violinist Ellie Wilson from the UK has created a composition called, Moth x Human which features the violin and other instruments that incorporate sounds generated from moth flight data. Article that talks about it here in The Strad:
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Practice
Just practicing my stuff today. Working on both my solo (Yanshinov) and duet (Gliere) Russian pieces. Good to switch between them—one I’ve worked on for awhile now, and the other one is new.
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