La Cucaracha FF164

Folk Fiddle lessons / Group Sight reading / Violins and Violas /

Flag of MexicoMusic for the Mexican tune La Cucaracha / The Cockroach.

Key: A Major

Time signature: 4/4

Rhythms:  This tune contains the following elements:
dotted crotchet and quaver / (taete) and quavers / (tete) and semibreve / (ta-aa-aa-aa) and tied minim (ta-aa) , tied quavers, crotchet rests, quaver rests, three upbeat quavers, 1st and 2nd time bars.

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Violin / Sight reading / Fiddle / Sight reading / Viola / Sight reading / Violin / Sight reading / Fiddle Orchestra / Sight reading /

La Cucaracha course outline.pdfLa Cucaracha course outline.pdf

Baile de las Gigantillas FF157

Folk Fiddle lessons / Group Sight reading / Violins and Violas /

Flag of SpainMusic for a traditional tune from Santander, Spain - Baile de las Gigantillas.  This traditional tune, originally in F Major, was collected by Rvdo. Sr. Doctor D. Sixto Córdova y Oña.

Key: G Major

Time signature: 2/4

Techniques: Col legno ricochet

Rhythms: The 1st and 2nd parts contains the following elements:

tetiri and tete and taquaver rest with quaver upbeats and 3rd position.

The 3rd part has tetiri and tete and ta and ta

There is one bar repeated three times.

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Baile de las Gigantillas course outline.pdfBaile de las Gigantillas course outline.pdf

Danza das Burgas FF234

Folk Fiddle lessons / Group Sight reading / Violins / Violas / Cellos /

Flag of SpainMusic for the traditional Galician tune Danza Das Burgas.  This traditional tune, kindly supplied by Richard Robinson, has been expanded to 48 bars with various combinations of the A, B & C part.  I was working on it at the time of the Spanish rail crash near the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela so it felt very poignant.

Key: D Major

Time signature: 2/2

Rhythms:  This tune contains the following elements:
crotchet / (ta) and pairs of quavers / (tete) and dotted minim / (ta-aa-aa) and dotted crotchet and quaver / (tae te) with a crotchet upbeat in 4th part. There are also slurred quavers upbeats in 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts.

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Danza das Burgas course outline.pdfDanza das Burgas course outline.pdf