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Composer Workshop 2

Lesson 75 · Unit 3 · Week 18

Composer Workshop 2

Friday, January 8

As you walk inAl entrar

  1. Take your recorder from the bin.Toma tu flauta del cubo.
  2. Your page and your Harmony Card are on your desk.Tu página y tu tarjeta de armonía están en tu pupitre.
  3. One piece, two parts. One bar fights.Una pieza, dos voces. Un compás pelea.
Today somebody else plays your piece, and you do not get to explain it.
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Do Now
Which Bar Fights?
¿Cuál compás pelea?

Four bars, two parts, played twice. In three bars the parts fit. In one they fight. Which bar, and what happens there?Cuatro compases, dos voces, dos veces. En tres compases las voces encajan. En uno pelean. ¿Cuál compás y qué pasa ahí?

The parts fight in bar ______. It sounds ______.Las voces pelean en el compás ______. Suena ______.
The piece, twiceLa pieza, dos veces
Made for this class. Not one of your pieces.

Nobody played a wrong note. Both lines are exactly as written. They just do not fit in that one bar.

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Today
I Can
Yo puedo

I canYo puedo

I can play a classmate's piece in two parts with a partner and name the bar where the two parts fight.Puedo tocar la pieza de un compañero a dos voces con una pareja y nombrar el compás donde las voces pelean.

I know I have got it whenSé que lo logré cuando

  • I named the bar where the two parts fight in the Do Now, and what happens there.Nombré el compás donde pelean las voces en el Do Now, y qué pasa ahí.
  • I played one line of somebody else's piece while a partner played the other.Toqué una línea de la pieza de otra persona mientras mi pareja tocaba la otra.
  • I gave that composer a response in the frame, naming a bar.Le di a esa persona una respuesta con la frase, nombrando un compás.
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Warm-Up
Play the Other Line
Toca la otra línea
  1. Breathe in for 4, out for 8.Inhala en 4, exhala en 8.
  2. The row with the recording, up and down.La fila con la grabación, subiendo y bajando.
  3. Play your own second part.Toca tu propia segunda voz.
  4. Swap pages with the person beside you.Intercambia páginas con quien tienes al lado.
  5. Play THEIR bottom line. Cold, from the page.Toca SU línea de abajo. En frío, desde la página.
The row, up and down, 76 BPMLa fila, subiendo y bajando, 76
Made for this class.

You have never seen their page. That is the point. Whatever you cannot play is information, not a mistake.

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I Do
The Frame Grows One Word
La frase crece una palabra

Last workshopEl taller pasado

In bar ___ I noticed ___.En el compás ___ noté ___.

TodayHoy

In bar ___ the two parts ___.En el compás ___ las dos voces ___.

The piece you just heard. Look at bar 3, and then listen to it again.

The composer stays silent while it plays. If your readers cannot play it, that is your page talking to you, three days before it has to be readable by anybody.

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We Do
One Piece, Whole Room
Una pieza, todo el salón
  1. One page. Two readers who have never seen it.Una página. Dos lectores que nunca la han visto.
  2. The composer is silent until they finish.La persona que compuso queda en silencio hasta el final.
  3. Readers play it as written, including anything that looks wrong.Los lectores tocan lo escrito, incluso lo que parezca mal.
  4. Two or three responses, each naming a bar.Dos o tres respuestas, cada una nombrando un compás.
  5. Then, and only then, the composer speaks.Después, y solo después, habla quien compuso.

Not about the readersNo sobre los lectores

The frame names a bar and the two parts. Never a person.La frase nombra un compás y las dos voces. Nunca a una persona.

In bar ______ the two parts ______.En el compás ______ las dos voces ______.
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You Do
Workshop in Threes
Taller en tríos
  1. Threes. Whose page first?Tríos. ¿Qué página va primero?
  2. Hand it over. You two play both lines.Entrégala. Ustedes dos tocan las dos líneas.
  3. Composer: silent. Write while you listen.Quien compuso: en silencio. Escribe mientras escuchas.
  4. Two responses, each naming a bar.Dos respuestas, cada una nombrando un compás.
  5. Rotate. Three rounds, three pieces.Roten. Tres rondas, tres piezas.

You do not play your own pieceNo tocas tu propia pieza

You have heard it in your head all week. Today you hear what is actually on the page.Lo has oído en tu cabeza toda la semana. Hoy oyes lo que de verdad está en la página.

In bar ______ the two parts ______.En el compás ______ las dos voces ______.
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Exit Ticket
Show Me
Muéstrame
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    Nobody played a wrong note in the Do Now. So why did bar 3 sound like that? 1 ptNadie tocó una nota mal en el Do Now. ¿Entonces por qué sonó así el compás 3?
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    What did your readers tell you, and which bar were they talking about? 2 pts¿Qué te dijeron tus lectores y de cuál compás hablaban?

Pack upA guardar

  1. Response Card to the front, your page clipped behind it.La tarjeta de respuesta al frente, con tu página detrás.
  2. Wipe the mouthpiece.Limpia la boquilla.
  3. Recorder in its bag, bag in the bin.La flauta en su bolsa, la bolsa al cubo.
  4. Slip to me at the door.Entrégame la hoja en la puerta.
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Monday
Next: Revision 2
El lunes: revisión 2

On Monday you write the clean copy, and the test is simple.El lunes escribes la copia limpia, y la prueba es sencilla.

Somebody who has never met you plays your page, and you are not there to explain it.Alguien que nunca te ha conocido toca tu página, y tú no estás para explicarla.

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