The weekly HW assignment is posted on your student’s YHS Band Dashboard. Ms. Kluga posted this week’s assignment today. Students should set aside 20-30 minutes a day (M-F) to practice.
Daily Archives: March 23, 2020
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Students receive daily sight-reading assignment (M-F), which is part of their daily 20-30 minutes of practice. Info on how to sign up for your free SRF account is attached.
Students send their weekly video assignment through this app. Thank you all for working through the learning curve with Ms. Kluga! The take-aways from this week are: Before the program will allow you to post your video, the final step is taking a selfie. And, for Ms. Kluga, it does not run well using Google – other browsers seem to work better.
Ms. Kluga still has all of your checks, which she will return to you.
As Dr. Hattar pointed out in Friday’s virtual “Senior Town Hall” – Disney World is closed. We will be working with all companies involved to figure out a refund. Ms. Kluga am so very sorry for our students – she so wanted to share this experience with you!
Dr. Hattar has not yet spoken about field trips for May. Ms. Kluga will update you as information becomes available.
In keeping with our John William’s tangent – did you know that part of what makes his film music so effective is his use of leitmotifs? (pronounced “light-moteefs”). A leitmotif is a musical melody that a composer assigns to a character or place in a story, to reinforce the audience’s connection with that character or place. Think of the theme to Jaws (which John Williams also wrote), as soon as you hear that two-note leitmotif, you know danger is coming and that those innocent people should hurry up and get out of the water!!, even before the shark appears on screen.
This technique was originally used in opera, and perfected by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Wagner is best known for composing the Ring Cycle (an epic musical dramatic work containing 4 separate operas that takes 17 hours to perform…but that is a story for another time…. Oh, and it’s called the Ring Cycle because the story is about a magical ring stolen from the gods that possesses omnipotent power (sound familiar??), but that is also a story for another time…).
Now think of Luke’s theme (also called The Force theme). John Williams uses this leitmotif in a wistful and sad way when Luke watches the suns set and wonders about his destiny. Then, Williams uses this leitmotif in a heroic, epic, and victorious way during the movie’s ending scene with Luke, Han and Chewie at Princess Leia’s medal ceremony.
That’s the cool thing about leitmotifs, the composer uses the same assigned melody – but by changing the style of how the melody is played, changes the tone and emotion of the scene, and the character.