Sound Waves Music Camp Day 1 Review and Day 2 outline notes

Yesterday was the first day of music camp! The day started out with rhythm games and sharp key signtaures

F C G D A E B! These feet are in the order of sharps. 

Stella is the banker distributing camp points in the form of play money in standard U.S. denominations- (Some of the activities earn practice credits that are reflected on the general studio practice chart.)

At snack time, apples were distributed cut into three pieces like a pie chart- approximately sliced into 78% (N2) 21% (O2) and 1% (trace gases such as helium, ozone etc.) Usually the trace gases percent was consumed first, then the 78 percents were submitted for more divisions and also their cores had to be removed...

Then as we moved into the physics section and studied transverse and longitudinal waves, it became suddenly very, very active!

We went through the outline list and I was relieved that I did not run out of material- actually we ran out of time. Which is a good sign- we are going into things thoroughly. 

Today's outline: 

8:30- Rhythm warm up: Cross rhythms and ensemble practice -rhythm games including triplets and quints, +, 

How to figure out any cross rhythm

9:00 Flat key scales and transposition, circle of fifths

9:30 HISTORY! Medieval Musicians, Renaissance period and Baroque Musical Analysis

10:00 guest speaker/performer

Circular Modal Improvisation game - Playing Church modes at the piano

10:30 Rehearsal for recital

11:00 Terms Memorization

Science: air pressure pitch, harmonics catch up on yesterday's missed presentation points

11:15 EXPERIMENT IN HARMONICS: Singing very loudly into a large can to make salt jump into cool patterns ...called CYMATICS (maybe I should warn the neighbors)

11:30 watching movies of other people doing cymatics on even cooler surfaces

More cymatics

Steel Pan

More steel pan

The Vegetable Orchestra

Ear

Cochlear implant

Cochlear activation

Pitch

Use violins to demonstrate partials, nodes, pitch

The doppler effect -using yesterday's notes

Great Pianists:

 Paderewski, Horowitz, Myra Hess and the RAF orchestra, Emil Gilels, Olga Samaroff, Sviatoslav Richter

Great Pieces

Islamey Balakirev