Daily Listening Assignments ~ July 7, 2020

Posted by MaryO on July 7, 2020

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🍁Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving!: 2 Favorite Thanksgiving Songs with Corresponding Musical Activity Pages for Elementary Pianists
This 8-page holiday "mini" collection features two favorite Thanksgiving songs with fun corresponding seasonal musical activity pages. Correlates with Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Level 1B. Titles: Over the River and Through the Woods and We Gather Together.
🍁Tom Turkey (Piano Solos for The Very Young Pianist)
Tom Turkey Piano Solo for very young musicians. By Jane Smisor Bastien.
🍁Over the River and Through the Woods
Easy Note Style Sheet Music.Letter Names of Notes embedded in each note-head!
🍁Happy Thanksgiving - Elementary Piano
Familiar Thanksgiving hymns are combined with sparkling new original compositions in this exciting holiday collections for Elementary Students. Includes: We Gather Together, On the River and Through the Woods, November Boogie, Pumpkin Pie Parade, Harvest Dance, and 10 more fun and motivational solos.
🍁My Thanksgiving Fun Book
Elementary-level piano arrangements of 10 traditional and original songs plus 7 fun pages. Contents: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (Elvey/Alford), Family of Candles (Warfield), Family of Candles Coloring Page, First Thanksgiving Day (Traditional/Axford), For the Beauty of the Earth (Pierpoint/Kocher), Grandmother with Turkey in Oven Coloring Page, I'm a Little Turkey (Traditional/Axford), Over the River […]
🍁Short & Sweet: Thanksgiving: Level 1
Students will have fun playing easy arrangements of these six seasonal solos. The smart choices and short length (10 pages of music) creates an attractive and practical supplement. Music is carefully arranged to make pieces easily attainable while helping to motivate and sustain student interest. Titles include: Harvest Song (Swing the Shining Sickle) * On […]
🍁Gobble Wobble Rag
The O'Connor Music Studio has this available for loan. Gobble Wobble Rag is an upbeat pattern-based ragtime solo composed by Jennifer Eklund. This is a great exercise for early intermediates with a focus on split articulations between the hands. Gobble, gobble!
🍁A Month of Sundays: Thanksgiving and Praise: Advanced Piano Preludes, Offertories and Postludes for Four Services
A Month of Sundays: Thanksgiving and Praise is an extraordinary collection for advanced pianists that includes time-honored hymns for all styles of worship. The pieces are grouped into four prelude-offertory-postlude combinations (one for each Sunday of the month). The arrangements are fresh and unique, conveying a wonderful spirit of thanksgiving.
🍁Seasonal Sunday Solos for Piano: Christmas, Holy Week, Pentecost, Thanksgiving & More
4 blended selections grouped by occasion. Includes: Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) * Come, Ye Thankful People, Come * Do You Hear What I Hear * God of Our Fathers * In the Name of the Lord * Mary, Did You Know? * Mighty to Save * Spirit of the Living God * The Wonderful […]
🎃 Blog Posts: It’s Halloween: Toccata and Fugue in d minor by J.S Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween.
🎃 Blog Posts: Halloween Themes Changed to a Major Key
Classic horror themes are ominous and generally dread-inspiring for a reason: They are written in minor keys. Find a nifty melody, go minor, and watch the goosebumps pile up. For composers, sometimes it’s almost too easy.
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain refers to a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a “musical picture”, St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain on the theme of a witches’ sabbath occurring on St. John’s Eve, which he completed on that very night, June 23, in 1867.
📆 Online OCMS Music Calendar for August
Local music events, musical history, holiday information, weather and much more
🎧 Online Piano Lessons
All about online piano lessons through the O'Connor Music Studio. We’re able to get everything done that we do in a studio lesson – playing, theory, Piano Maestro, ear training, technique. The only thing that doesn’t work quite so well is piano duets but I just got an idea in a seminar today how to […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod
The Funeral March of a Marionette (Marche funèbre d’une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was written in 1872 for solo piano and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which originally aired from 1955 to 1965.
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
The translation of the title of this piece from Norwegian isn’t quite literally “mountain king”. The “king” in this instance is actually a troll that Peer Gynt invents in a fantasy. The introduction of this movement is, “There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath
The final movement is the best known part of the symphony, thanks to its use in the Julia Roberts movie, Sleeping With The Enemy. It features a four-part structure, which Hector Berlioz described in his own program notes from 1845 as follows: “He sees himself at a witches’ Sabbath, in the midst of a hideous […]
🍁Songs Of The Seasons: Autumn
A a collection of fun and easy popular songs and classical pieces to enjoy playing throughout the fall season. Classical selections include Vivaldi's Autumn, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Chopin's spooky Funeral March, Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, and Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. Popular standards include Shine On Harvest Moon, School Days, My Melancholy Baby, Over […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Dies Irae
Although not technically a “halloween piece” this very old Gregorian Chant (from the 300s!) is used in a lot of music that sounds spooky. Dies Irae is a Latin term that means “Day of Wrath”.

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