And now I offer you, my dear readers, the children's cycle "Spillikins" by S. Maikapar in the form of a fairy tale. And now I offer you, my dear readers, the children's cycle "Spikals" by S. Maykapar in the form of a fairy tale.
Many composers write music that both adults and children listen to with the same enthusiasm. But there are composers who devoted all their work to creating only children's music, and one that children could not only listen to, but also perform themselves.
Today we will get acquainted with the music of one of these children's composers, who lived more than 100 years ago. His name was Samuil Moiseevich Maykapar.
Samuil Moiseevich Maykapar was born in the city of Kherson in 1867. In the family, besides him, there were 4 sisters and all of them were engaged in music. Samuel inherited his musical abilities from his mother, who played the piano very well. He began to study music from the age of 5. At the age of 11, he began to compose music himself, started a notebook in which he wrote down all his works. The family decided that Samuil would become a lawyer, but he abandoned this career and entered the conservatory, which he successfully completed.
In 1901 Maykapar moved to the city of Tver, where he opened his own music school. Then the idea came to him to write children's works that the children themselves could perform.
A variety of small pieces by the composer for small, just beginning performers can be called miniatures. They, like photos in an album, are combined into cycles. Today we will get acquainted with one of such cycles. It is called "Biryulki".
Listen to the sound of this word. How sweet and musical it is. But what does it mean? Once upon a time, it was the favorite game of the kids. A bunch of very small toy little things - spillikins spilled out on the table. Most often, these were cups, jugs, ladles and other kitchen items carved from wood, ladders, hats, sticks and so on.The spillikins had to be taken out with a small hook, one by one, without moving the rest.
Little pieces of Maykapar remind those same spillikins from the old game. Let's get to know this music. What can be found among the spillikins of Maykapar?
First of all, these are children's musical portraits.
Here is a little shepherd. On a clear sunny day, he went out to a summer flowering meadow near the river. In order not to be bored grazing his herd, he cut off a reed for himself and made a pipe out of it. (A pipe is a small pipe). A bright, joyful tune rang over the meadows. In the middle of the play, the melody became more like a shepherd's dance, and then his pipe began to play again.
And now, listening to the next miniature, we will see little commander. He is very belligerent, courageous and courageous. With a clear voice, he energetically gives orders. We do not know to whom they are intended - tin soldiers, soft toys or friends-children. But the music convinces us that any order of such a commander will be carried out without fail.
In the next piece, the music is very sad, quiet, plaintive, Listening to it, you want to feel sorry for someone, sympathize, cry. It seems that the child complains about his difficult life, about his sad fate. Samuil Maykapar called this miniature - "Orphan"
Alan Huckleberry
IMTA Level C3
Trifles: 26 Short Pieces for Piano, Library of Russian Soviet Music, 1977
These are completely different portraits, not similar to each other, presented to us by the composer. In each of them, not an adult, but a child is guessed. And the music told us about each in its own way.
We now turn our attention to musical landscapes. What is "landscape"? These are pictures of nature: "Clouds are floating", "Spring", "Autumn", "On the skating rink". The musical landscapes of Maykapar are dedicated to the four seasons.
In "Spikers" Maykapar does not have such a play called "Summer", but at this time of the year it is easily recognizable in some miniatures. Here, for example, "In the garden." Listening to it, you vividly imagine a warm, summer day, a playground, a shady garden. Let's listen.
While playing in the garden, the children suddenly saw ... Who do you think? Could it be a butterfly or a bird?"Moth" ...So Maykapar called this work. A moth is much smaller than a butterfly, it does not have such large wings, so it is not so elegant and graceful. But it is light and fast. After listening to this work, we seemed to see how a moth flies from one flower to another.
I think that everyone saw it, how water pours into the river in a large, powerful stream. Especially in the spring. Seen? In a play"Stormy Stream" Maykapar drew this picture.
Now we have an amazing journey ahead of us. into the world of fairy tales . Fairy tales are always something mysterious, surprisingly beautiful, unusual. Sometimes we compose fairy tales ourselves, sometimes we see them in a dream. Samuil Moiseevich came up with little fairy-tale plays, such as: "Fleeting Vision", "Fairy Tale", "Legend" ...
Who among us doesn't love dancing? We like children's and youth, modern and ballroom dancing. We enjoy watching ballet, but this is also a dance. Dancing is a very exciting, enjoyable and beautiful activity. Samuil Moiseevich Maykapar wrote many dances. This polkas, gavottes, minuets, waltzes.Waltz is a ballroom dance that is over 200 years old. Word"Waltz" in translation means "circle, rotate." This dance is dominated by swirling graceful movements.
Alan Huckleberry
The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project
IMTA Level D3
Trifles: 26 Short Pieces for Piano, Library of Russian Soviet Music, 1977
Maykapar "Polka"
Use Katya, 6 years, 10 months (Reporting concert of the music school Gaza)
A multi-talented musician, Maykapar was known as the author of a number of piano pieces for children and youth. In particular, his cycle of piano miniatures " Spillikins".
Spillikins, a cycle of plays for children, Op.28 (1900)
- 1. In the garden
- 2. Orphan
- 3. Shepherd boy
- 4. Autumn
- 5. Waltz
- 6. Anxious minute
- 7. Polka
- 8. A fleeting vision
- 9. Little Commander
- 10. Fairy tale
- 11. Minuet
- 12. Moth
- 13. Music box
- 14. March
- 15. Lullaby
- 16.Song of sailors
- 17.Legend
- 18. Prelude and fughetta
- 19. Echo in the mountains
- 20. Gavotte
- 21. Spring
- 22. Seven-league boots
- 23. At the rink (Toccatina)
- 24. Clouds are floating
- 25.Romance
- 26. Horseman in the forest (Ballad)
Performs Anna Wang (14 year old)Anna Wang, 14 years old(Recorded on May 9, 2010 in Vancouver, BC, Canada)
And now I offer you, my dear readers, the children's cycle "Spikers" by S. Maykapar in the form of a fairy tale
(based on the fairy tale by G. Kamennaya)
One day, while cleaning up the attic, Natasha's mother found an old doll with a peeling nose in a dusty dress. She didn't have shoes on her feet. Natasha glued chestnut pigtails on the doll, sewed a new cotton dress and small oilcloth shoes. But, although now she had shoes on her feet, the doll was called Barefoot. This is the first time the girl saw her. Natasha loved the sandal very much. Every morning she took her out for a walk in the garden. Puppy Sharik always played with them. And what games they did not play!
And in the evening, tired of the games, the doll helplessly lowered her rag hands, bowed her head on Natasha's shoulder. Then the girl laid the Sandal in a wooden bed, covered it with a blanket, sang a lullaby
Barefoot liked this life. But one day, for her birthday, dad gave Natasha a new doll. She was so beautiful! In a pink transparent dress with lush frills, patent leather shoes with buckles on her feet, and on her head a hat with ribbons like a water lily flower. The beautiful doll was named Lyalya. She sat on the sofa, among the embroidered pillows, and did not talk to anyone. Of course, the doll was very imaginative. When the other toys began to play, she arrogantly declared: "Quiet, I have a headache!". The toys were offended and stopped paying attention to the asshole.
But Natasha Lyalya really liked it. In the morning she took the elegant doll in her arms, gently pressed it to her and circled around the room with her.
And the more affectionate Natasha was with Lyalya, the sadder and sadder Sandal became. She did not have such a beautiful dress, hat, and she could not open and close her eyes. The sandal was crying more and more often, hiding in a corner. “What are you whining about,” Lyalya once told her. If I were you, I would have left here long ago. Out of resentment, Barefoot cried even harder and decided to go far into the forest and stay there. She said nothing to anyone, jumped out of the window and ran farther and farther from her house. The forest was dark and scary.
When the dawn was already reddening over the trees, Barefoot went out to the edge of the forest. She looked around and saw the master Silkworm on the branch, and on the trunk of the tree - a fluffy Squirrel with a nut in tenacious paws. The sandal shared her grief with the forest dwellers. The animals conferred and decided to help the doll - to make her as beautiful as Lyalya. The silkworm sewed her a beautiful dress, and Squirrel gave her two nutshells instead of shoes. Heron also brought a gift - it was a lily hat. Sandals' dream came true: she became as elegant as the Lyalya doll. The little animals frolicked around the doll, calling her to play, but she was afraid to get her dress dirty. And the animals ran away.
Everyone in the forest was busy with their work. The silkworm wound its cocoons into a thread. The squirrel was storing nuts for the winter. The barefoot was sad. She did not know what to do, but she was not used to idleness. She remembered the house, Natasha, toys. “I didn’t imagine that I would be so sad without you,” thought Barefoot. Why do I need such a beautiful dress if Natasha doesn’t see it? I’m an ungrateful doll. forest". The sandal rushed straight through the thorny bushes. The grass grew thicker and taller. Suddenly the wind blew, lightning flashed, large drops of rain fell on the leaves. All the little animals hid in their burrows, and Barefoot was left alone.
And the rain kept pouring and pouring. A lily hat caught on a branch, the wind tore off the dress, streams of water washed away the shoes from the feet. Spattered with mud, shivering from the cold, Sandal finally saw the familiar roof. But in front of the house, she slipped and fell. She woke up from the loud barking of Sharik. It was he, her faithful comrade, who, all day, when the loss was discovered, could not find a place for himself and went on a search. Sharik joyfully licked Sandals on the cheek and brought her home. Natasha was very happy. Even Lyalya smiled at Sandals. And how happy all the other toys! The doll was cleaned, dressed in a washed cotton dress. And in the evening all the toys arranged a real ball in honor of Barefoot, and Natasha danced with her, as before.
The sandal was happy again. Only now did she fully understand that friends are more precious than brilliant outfits.
.TALE IN MUSIC
Samuil Maykapar. fleeting vision
Edward Grieg. Elf dance
Edward Grieg. In the cave of the mountain king
1st lesson
Program content. To teach children to distinguish the figurativeness of music, expressive means that create an image.
Lesson progress:
Educator: You listened to fairy tales told by music. In fairy tales, good often meets evil, they tell about fantastic characters, magical transformations. The play you are about to hear is called A Fleeting Vision. It was written by S. Maykapar. What do you think, what kind of fleeting vision is told in this music - good, harmless or evil? (Performs a play.)
Children. About good. The music is light, airy, gentle, as if someone is fluttering, flying - a beautiful butterfly or moth.
Teacher Yes, the music sounds gentle, high, abrupt, very quiet (plays bars 1-4). It contains the same intonations, similar to the whirling or flapping of light wings (plays bars 5-8). Maybe the composer wanted to tell us about a beautiful moth, a bird, a magically glowing firefly or a fabulous elf? The music is light, graceful, danceable. (Performs the piece again.)
2nd lesson
Program content. To teach children to distinguish between the means of musical expression that create an image: dynamics, register, tempo.
Lesson progress:
The teacher performs the play by S. Maykapar "Fleeting Vision". Children remember its name, speak about the nature of the music.
Educator: Does the nature of the music change in the play, or does it sound in the same mood? (Performs the piece again.)
Children. Is changing. In the middle, it sounds more mysterious, mysterious.
P e da g o g. That's right. In the middle, the melody moves from the upper register to the lower, darker one, becomes alert, gloomy, disturbing, mysterious, sounds with stops, cautiously, uncertainly, questioningly. (Performs bars 17-24.)
Suddenly the movement stopped, a mysterious pause sounds - the vision disappeared, lost. (Performs bars 25-30.)
But here again the familiar fluttering, quiet intonation began to flicker. The melody rose high and disappeared altogether. (Performs the last nine measures, then the entire piece.)
Who wants to portray a fleeting vision, dance to the music? (Children improvise.)
Draw at home the fabulous image that appears to you when you listen to this play.
3rd lesson
Program content. Teach children to compare plays with similar titles.
Lesson progress:
Educator: You listened to S. Maykapar's play “Fleeting Vision”. Today you will hear another piece with a similar name - "Dance of the Elves" by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Are they similar in character? (Performs two pieces.)
Children. Yes. They are light, airy, fluttering, dancing.
Educator: Listen, in the play "Fleeting Vision" jerky, light sounds alternate with swirling, fluttering, smooth melodies. (A fragment plays.) And what is the melody in the "Dance of the Elves"? (Snippet plays.)
Children. The melody is also sometimes jerky, sometimes smooth.
Teacher Yes, but in the dance of the elves the smooth melody is longer, it is smooth, soft, melodious, and in “Fleeting Vision” by S. Maykapar, the smooth intonations are very short (plays fragments).
We talked about the fact that in the play by S. Maykapar there is a more mysterious middle part (a fragment plays). Does the character of music change in E. Grieg's play? (Performs a play.)
Children. Yes, there is a dark, mysterious melody in the "Dance of the Elves" too.
P e da g o g. Well done! In the "Dance of the Elves" two melodies alternate - light, light and darker, mysterious, wary. What instruments can we use to emphasize the different nature of these melodies? (Plays a piece.)
Children. In a gentle light theme - a bell, and in a mysterious one - rattles.
P e d a g o g. Yes. We can use the same instruments when orchestrating S. Maykapar's play "Fleeting Vision". (Children orchestrate pieces.)
E. Grieg's play is called "Dance of the Elves". What dance do the elves perform? Let's try to invent it. (Children improvise movements to the music.)
4th lesson
Program content. To teach children to distinguish between the figurativeness of music, the features of marching and dancing.
Lesson progress:
Educator: You listened to the play “Dance of the Elves”. Elves are kind magical creatures, light, airy, flying.
In the Scandinavian countries, there are fairy tales about evil spirits - trolls. These are fantastic creatures hostile to people. Trolls build entire palaces in caves in the mountains.
The play "In the Cave of the Mountain King" from the suite "Peer Gynt" tells about such magical creatures, depicts a picture of the underground kingdom of trolls. How does this music sound? (Record sounds.)
Children. The music is scary, mysterious, fabulous.
P e d a g o g. Yes. At the beginning of the piece, the music sounds quiet, from afar, low, abrupt, as if trolls are sneaking around. Gradually, the sonority intensifies, the same melody becomes louder and faster, as if the trolls are approaching. Double basses play in the orchestra, bassoons - low, ominous. Then other instruments join them. The music is like a march, and at the end - like a dance, harsh, fantastic, gloomy, mysterious, sinister. At the end of the play, witchcraft spells and menacing cries are heard. The mysterious mountain fairy-tale nature is depicted in this music. (Record sounds.)
Let's compose a fairy tale with you about a fleeting vision, elves, about trolls and we will portray fairy-tale characters, dance to the music.
Presentation
Included:
1. Presentation - 7 slides, ppsx;
2. Sounds of music:
Samuil Maykapar. Fleeting vision, mp3;
Edward Grieg. Dance of the elves, mp3;
Edward Grieg. In the cave of the mountain king, mp3;
3. Accompanying article, docx;
4. Notes for performance by the teacher, jpg.
Music lessons
TALE IN MUSIC
Samuil Maykapar. fleeting vision
Edward Grieg. Elf dance
Edward Grieg. In the cave of the mountain king
