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SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS AND OPPORTUNITIES — 2012
compiled by Barbera Secrist, Orchestra Director at Lovinggood MS

The musical opportunities listed below are ones of potential interest to orchestra members due to their focus on orchestral instruments.  There are programs listed that are local as well as throughout the Eastern United States.  The residential programs in other geographic areas have been included due to their popularity, excellence, or uniqueness.  The list was derived from several sources: programs in which I have personal experience or knowledge, those which were suggested by various other musicians, or those which sent us brochures or were named in other listings.  This list is not meant as a recommendation nor as a comprehensive list, but as a growing compilation of some options.  Be sure to check specific information at the links provided or call for more information.

GA Camps

GA ASTA String Summer Camp, Hampton, GA http://georgiaastacamp.com/

Encore Music Camp at Emory University     404-988-1245 www.encoreorchestracamp.com/

info@encoreorchestracamp.com

UGA Summer Music Camp, 706-542-2061,  http://www.uga.edu/music/summercamp

Upbeat String Camp www.atlantastreetviolins.com

Camps Outside GA

Appel Farm Summer Music Camp http://www.appelfarm.org/

Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC, 828-884-2975, www.brevardmusic.org

Camp Encore/Coda, Sweden, ME, 617-325-1541, www.encore-coda.com

Eastern U.S. Music Camp, Colgate University, Hamilton NY.  866-777-7841

Fiddlehead Music Camp http://www.nhisom.org/

Florida State University Summer Music Camps, Tallahassee, FL, 850-644-2508

http://www.music.fsu.edu/pr/summer-camps.htm

French Woods Camp, Hancock, NY, 800-634-1703, www.frenchwoods.com

Hartwick College Summer Music Festival & Institute, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, 800-388-0337

www.hartwickmusicfestival.org

Landon School, Bethesda, MD 301-320-1044, www.landon.net

Luzerne Music Center, Lake Luzerne, NY.  800-874-3202; www.luzernemusic.org

Mark Wood Rock Orchestra Camp, Olathe, KS, www.mwroc.com

Meadowmount School of Music,  Westport,  NY, 734-662-4126, www.meadowmount.com

Midwest Young Artists Summer Music Festival, Lake Forest, IL, 847-926-9898, www.mya.org/summer

New England Music Camp http://www.nemusiccamp.com/

New York Summer Music Festival http://www.nysmf.org

Rocky Ridge Music Centerwww.rockyridge.org

Strings International Music Festival, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 856-875-6816, www.stringscamp.com

University of North Carolina Greensboro Summer Music Camp, Greensboro, NC, 800-999-2869, www.smcamp.org

Invitations to the 2012 Orchestra Banquet have been delivered to students.  RSVP and Payments are due Tuesday, May 8th.
The Hillgrove Orchestra Banquet will be held this Friday, May 11th at Burnt Hickory Baptist Church
5145 Due West Road
Powder Springs, GA
Arrival at 6PM, Dinner will be served at 6:30.
Attire: Tie and party dress.
Cost includes dinner and awards.
Children under 7 – $8.00
Adults – $18.00

No cost if you are not going to eat, but we need to know if you are coming. Make checks payable to HOBC.  RSVP and Payments are due Tuesday, May 8th.

Volunteers needed for set up, check in and clean up.  Please contact Teresa Caldwell at: 770-714-0049.

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Music History – be sure to check out:

http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/history/music-history.htm

Baroque – 1600 – 1750

No symphonies composed in baroque period – Dance Suites

ACSOG  –  I.  Allemande  II. Courante  III. Sarabande  IV. Optional V.  Gigue

No concert halls

Musicians employed by wealthy landowners (Kings, Dukes, Princes, etc.)

Performed in a chamber in the castles or estates – chamber orchestras – smaller groups

Bows were backwards – detache (short detached bow strokes) – Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach

Keyboard – harpsichord – one dynamic because strings were plucked, not hammered.

Bach (1685-1750) – St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany

Vivaldi, Corelli

Classical – 1750 – 1827

First Concert Halls –

Four Viennese Masters – Beethoven 9, Schubert 10, Haydn 104 (worked for Prince Esterhauzy), Mozart 41

Piano Forte – Plays both loud and soft – strings are hammered

Bows were improved by Tourte

Brass valves were invented – allowed for more complex brass parts

Smaller to Larger orchestras

Shorter to Longer symphonies – Beethoven’s First Symphony

Sonata Allegro Form – Exposition/Development/Recapitulation – ABA

Romantic – 1827 – 1900

Programmatic – music that tells a story

Sinfonie Fantastique – Hector Berlioz – 1832

Five movements – Fixed Idea – Love Theme

Even longer symphonies – larger orchestras

Concerned sounds of orchestra – romantic ideas

Music Theory –

Form – Sonata-Allegro

Theme and Variations

32-bar Song Form – AABA

12-bar Blues

All theory covered in class may be reviewed at these websites:

http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/theory/theory.htm

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons

http://www.teoria.com/exercises/

Auditions for the Mastery Orchestra will be held next Wednesday and Thursday.

Everyone will play Elgar from letter G to the end, and Dvorak from measure 34 to the poco meno mosso.

Violins will also play the Piazzolla from rehearsal 2-4.

Violas and Cello will play Piazzolla from 4-6.