[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

[Slim Chance]

Lee, oops I made a mistake.  When I wrote "The cup is on a table" the '"the"
is like a pick-up and "table" is beat one.  I meant "cup" is beat one.
"Table" would be on beat three.  Sorry.  And if you found this to be just a
bunch of music theory gobledegook, don't feel bad.  This is finals week
coming up for my music theory students and some of them don't get me
either!  8-)

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Slim Chance <slimsails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, Lee.  It's hard to imagine and silly to think about Foxworthy taking
> anything so seriously as playing the flute in the orchestra, but he's all I
> could think about while watching that guy.  So 70s!
>
> Re Tchaikovsky, The Russians tried not to like him because his compositions
> were so Germanic -- sort of like Beethoven -- and not at all Russian.  They
> saw him as something of a turncoat.  In fact he spurred a movement of other
> Russian composers, e.g., Rimsky-Korsekov, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Balakirev and
> Qui to form what became know as the "Mighty Five" who undertook to write
> specifically Russian music.  Nevertheless Tchaikovsky continued to win over
> the hearts of people with his wonderful sense of melody, imagination,
> orchestration, etc. and the nation was rocked by his death at age 53.  A
> controversy to this day, some say he died of Cholera and others say suicide
> because of his admitted homosexuality.  But, yeah, I love his stuff too!
>
> A little tidbit on typical Russian melody:  The Russian language has no
> articles -- "a" or "the" -- so when we say "The cup is on a table" they
> would say "Cup is on table."   Western European melodies, both folk melodies
> and formal classical melodies we often use "pick-up" notes. For example in
> "Happy Birthday"  the "Happy" is a pick-up and "Birth" comes in on beat
> one.  Or in "Amazing Grace" the "A" is a pick-up and "Maz" is beat one.
> Still with me?  The technical musical term for this is called an anacrusis.
> When we say "The cup is on a table" the '"the" is like a pick-up and "table"
> is beat one.  Russian melodies rarely use pick-up notes in their melodies
> and most often begin right on beat one so that  parallels their language as
> it should.  In "Cup is on table"  "Cup" is beat one.  Tchaikovsky's melodies
> are filled with pick-ups therfore very un-Russian.
>
> Class dismissed.
>
> Slimsky Slimsnakovskya  8-)
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Slim,
>>
>> Excellent--thanks for sharing.  "You may be a redneck" if you associate
>> Foxworthy with Bernstein, although the resemblance is uncanny.
>>
>> We had two classes in school where they would take a picture of each class
>> and if someone was in your seat every time you received an "A" and for
>> each
>> class you missed you could make it up with a short paper.  The classes
>> were
>> Theater Appreciation and Music Listen Lab.  Unfortunately I mistakenly
>> enrolled in Music Appreciation which was absolutely one of the most
>> difficult and time-consuming classes I ever took.  In retrospect it may
>> have
>> been the most useful class because I've spent far more time listening to
>> classical music than using anything else I learned in college.  I still
>> love
>> Rock-n-Roll but it's tough to beat Tchaikovsky's greatest hits.
>>
>> Lee
>> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
>> Kent Island, MD
>>
>>
>>
>> Slim Chance wrote:
>> >
>> > Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
>> > background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program called
>> > Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.  I
>> > believe
>> > LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe Louis
>> > Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously for
>> > different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the second
>> > part
>> > where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video also
>> > features
>> > Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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