Buncombe County Government, NC Library, 4 Dec 2009

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From YouTube: Keowee Chamber Music

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Keowee Chamber Music at Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville, NC.

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Welcome everybody, my name is Kate, and this concert is especially for you younger people. It's a kids concert and this is Amy and we play together as two and sometimes we play together as more with a group called keowee chamber, music, we're going to start with a really lively, little tune called village festival, jig.

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Well, we're going to go ahead and be playing a lot of different kinds of music, for you like Kate said, but, first of all, let me just talk really quickly about the instruments that you're going to hear today. What kind of instrument is this guitar right? And this is what we call a classical guitar, which means that it's not amplified, so it's not really really loud and it's basically just a hollow box with strings attached to it.

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Okay, that it's very simplest, although this guitar actually took quite a while to make you can see it's made of different kinds of wood and what was I using to go ahead and make the sounds come out of the instrument. Could any of you see was I using a pick. One of those pieces of plastic and strumming know what was I using my fingers right. So I actually have nails on my right hand the hand that I'm using to pluck the strings and no nails.

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On my left hand, that's the hand that I go ahead and I press down on the strings next to these metal bars called frets and that changes the sound. Now each of us have a different job when we're playing, and sometimes we switch our jobs and sometimes our job stays the same within the piece and one of those jobs is playing what we call harmony, okay or the accompanying part, to the melody and on the next piece we're going to play.

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That's my job I go ahead and keep the harmony kind of it's sort of like the foundation, while the flute will actually go ahead and play the melody or the tune, the thing that you would sink so I'm going to go ahead and demonstrate my part first, which is the harmony part when I kind of do the same thing over and over again on this song. Something like this.

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Do it in different ways.

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But that's what I'm going to do throughout the whole song now that would be pretty boring after a while. Wouldn't it you know, even though I'm doing different things, it's still the same thing. So here's what the melody will do on this song.

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Okay, now we'll do the whole song and we'll put our two parts together. So remember I have the harmony part and kate has the melody part and the song that we're going to do is called danza, I matta and it's from Peru.

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Well, I'm going to tell you about this a little bit cuz. She told you about her instrument. This is a flute and it looks little may be different from that. Some of the other flute you've seen because the body is wooden. It's not a metal flute. The body is, would this is metal it's silver and make the sound with my breath big breath and go for a long time with the breath?

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Did you notice that I wouldn't breathe for quite a long time and I actually blow across the whole I, don't put my mouth over it? Have you ever blown over a soda bottle? It made noise that way. Anybody ever done that that's the same kind of that's the same thing I do basically I just below across.

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It's pretty high instrument and I've got a couple of others. I'll tell you about later. um You want to come up.

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With next okay, we're going to need your help on this next song. Actually, it's three songs. We're going to go ahead and see how carefully you can listen, so we're going to go ahead and play the first song and, let's see, if you recognize it, don't.

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Touch ok, thank you. Lady Christmas. Listen I just create my bearings.

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So who recognizes that? Okay, what is it Flintstone? Try good great great yeah! That's the Flintstones! Okay! Next one! This is song number two, so Flintstones his song number one. What's number two.

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Anybody recognize that one fresh.

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Where are you sleeping right, so that's song number two: okay, song number three: should we start right with the big.

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The beginning, okay: here we go.

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Okay, which ones that trinkle.

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Twinkle little star right.

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Okay, great great number, three, okay, so what we need? We need to divide up into three groups. Okay, so let's see why don't we have? Can we have? This will be group number one over here? No catcher! That's.

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Right you're gonna be Flintstones group.

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Okay, when we put those two big boys with them too, okay, so group number one okay group number: two, let's see: let's have everybody who's sitting down over here. Your group number two okay, now you're gonna have to be a little bit active here because we're gonna be standing up and sitting down so.

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They see their receipts or who you come yeah.

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People in the seats, you're gonna be group number two, no pressure which is frère Jacques. Are you.

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Saying: okay, okay,.

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And everybody here in the front, you're gonna be group number three: okay, are you which twinkle.

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Twinkle twinkle that's.

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Right twinkle twinkle okay, so now what we're gonna do is when you hear your song you're gonna stand up, raise your ok I, raise your hands, probably raising your hands, raise your hand, raise your hands; okay, so we're gonna practice. First, okay.

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Okay, give us some practice.

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Ready, okay, so you're gonna, listen for your song. We're gonna go really slow, so it figures it out. Lindos.

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Rare Chaka and twinkle twinkle okay.

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Right, good gray, that was Flinstones; okay, we're going to we're going to try to keep this easy here.

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Good all right now, let's start.

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At the beginning of the tune for okay.

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There we go tinkle, tinkle, great okay. Now what we're going to do is we're going to really mix them up and it's going to start off kind of easy where we're going to play the song for a while, just like we did, but then we're going to start switching faster and faster okay.

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So, as long as you hear, your song keep your hands up in the air, but when it switches to another song and put your hands down, and the next group put your hands up, okay, so we're going to see if we can mix you up. That's why we call this our mixed up, medley.

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That it okay, very good, listening yay, okay.

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So now you could hear in those songs that we were playing, how we did them at different speeds. Like was the Flintstones, was that slower fast was a Flintstone song, slow or fast.

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We thought we were playing it pretty fast. Okay, what about? Are you sleeping since that's a lullaby? What did we do with that? That was a slower song right, that's what we call tempo in music and so we're going to play two songs for you. This first one is going to be a slow song and it's actually based on a tune from Finland, believe it or not, a very cold country, and it's called song, is my joy.

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I'd like you to listen and hear which instrument has the melody and which instrument has the harmony see whether we kept our same jobs.

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So, which instrument had the melody, the part that you would sing? Was it the guitar? Was it the flu flu right.

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And I again, I.

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Got to go ahead and keep playing the harmony part. So now we're going to go ahead and do a fast sauce.

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Got water in my keys there's a lot of humidity in our air right now.

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We're duermen, listen. This is a piece by Bach, originally written for flute and harpsichord.

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You are being really good listeners whenever I play for people who are good listeners, I, say give yourself a hand for being good listeners. Wow Hey, good, listening, well, I'm gonna introduce you to my flute family that I brought along. This is the one that you already met.

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Yeah it's nice huh and it's really the soprano voice of the the flute family, and here we have a little tiny one called the piccolo, which is the supreme me know it's the highest voice, I'm going to play that at the end- and here we have an alto flute and there is a lower flute called the bass. Flute has a curved head and in bring it today and they even have contrabass flutes are huge they're taller than I. Am that very strange thoughts made a play, a flute, that's so low.

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This is the lowest flute that I brought the alto.

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All and I'm going to play the same tune three times, so you can hear as they go up a little bit. This is an Irish team called the rights of man.

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You know each other.

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And now here's the medium voice, it isn't a different pitch. This is actually in June this one's in C, but it's also higher.

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All right, oh all, right!

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Well we're just going to play this tune for you to wiggle wiggle around if you need to wiggle you've been sitting still, this is kind of a funny tune with the alto flute in the guitar and Amy. It's gonna I always think we're in Hawaii. When we play this. This song and.

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You can actually help us out by you know on the first piece that you heard me play where we talked about melody and harmony where I was tapping the guitar. You can help us out by doing that on this piece bump bump, bump, bump bump bump bump you just kind of help, clap just like that. That will help pretend we're in Hawaii even a little bit more would be the drum part there. We go.

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That was kind of tricky, isn't it now? You could maybe hear how we were changing, how loud and soft we would go ahead and play music. There's a word for that. That's called dynamics, okay, and we have some different dynamics that are written in our music. Like say, for example, the P stands for the word piano, which means soft okay, so I need a volunteer to come up and be the soft dynamic.

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Come on up we'll, let you be right here: maybe where would be best we'll be right? There you'll be our piano person. Okay, now there's another one called metso piano, that's just a little bit louder than piano. Okay, once you come on up, you'll be met, so piano alrighty MPN, and we should probably turn because she's gonna play so we'll turn and kind of angle. Why don't you come on right? Over here? Cuz she's got to be able to watch all right.

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Now we have two peas, which is pianissimo, which is really really quiet: okay, you've been holding your hand up. So we're going to put you right here, you're going to be pianism. Oh ok! Now we're going to get just a little bit louder to mezzo Forte, okay, your a Mets Oh forte. So this is medium LAN. We're going to have you be right here on that step, works, ok and now Forte loud? He wants to be.

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Left to be a lot.

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Of thing that you.

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Commune up come on up here, be loud. Okay,.

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You be loud, okay,.

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We believe quiet right now.

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Once you come on right.

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Up here you can go be.

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Loud right of here, you're gonna hold this sign right in front of you. There you go your lat okay and now we need fortissimo really really.

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Loud, okay, oh.

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All right, okay, she got you too.

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Yeah yeah, alright, so.

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For this tune, we've got four different sections: okay, so who wants to be number one? I need a volunteer out of you group. Give me one: okay, we'll have you be one so you're going to come forward, so the first line is going to be met so forte? Okay, let's see who wants to be line? Number two: okay, you'll be line number two piano all right line, number three! Oh, let's yeah! This would be good fortissimo, okay, and this will.

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Be great line number.

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Four: okay and you to just kind of step back here and we'll use you in just a minute again: okay, so here's our tune here will be line number one and line number two line number three in line number four: let's hear what it sounds like: okay,.

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Here we got mezzo Forte, fortissimo and.

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Let me get started again: yeah athletes, malfunction.

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Cuz, you hear the difference in how much more interesting it made that song sound. Okay, let's go ahead and mix it all up again. Okay, so see. Why do we have you be number one?

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Okay and we're about number two and.

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See what shall we do next about number three here once you come right up here and what about number? Four? Okay, okay, we're good! This is what musicians! This is what we do and we're learning music. We experiment with all these different dynamics and see what works for the song. The best so sorry got far kid demo.

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Mezzo piano part a.

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Good well, thank you. Pay me such great volunteers. We foreign.

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Played concerts we practice so we get together and we try to make the music. So that's we're gonna do right now we're gonna practice. Okay, all.

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Right so we're gonna go ahead and do that rhythm that you heard me do earlier: let's see if we're going to start with, eat the easy rhythm and then we'll see if we can go to the harder rhythm everybody. Let's see, if we can do this one two one two so clap, clap, clap. Oh really, good!

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Very good, all right here we go. Are you ready, I'm gonna? Do our song.

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You guys ready, let's get our rhythm going here, guys ready.

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Good listening.