ABRSM Violin Grade 1 2012-2015 C2 Russia Gopak PRACTICE NOTES

ABRSM Grade 1 – 1 – C2 Russia – Russia – Gopak No. 5 from Travel Tunes

By Margery Dawe

Warm up for this piece by… 1) …Practicing the NOTES it uses… 3 sharps in the key signature (Father Charles Goes) = F♯, C♯ & G♯ = A major Practice an A Major Scale, and an A major arpeggio! 2) …Practicing the RHYTHM is uses… “Ta te-te” or “tea coff-ee” Bowing = long short-short 3) NOTES + RHYTHM = …Practicing this rhythm on each step of the A major scale, and then on each step of the A major arpeggio!

Section A: The first musical idea…

Q1: What’s the difference between the first and second lines? Q2: How many times can you see this 8-bar pattern throughout the whole piece?

Section B: A new musical idea…

Q1: What’s the difference between the first and second lines? Q2: How many times can you see this 8-bar pattern throughout the whole piece?

What happens next? •

The piece is so far structured like this: Section A Section A Section B …..?

What happens next?

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Section A : A new take on an old musical idea…

Q1: What’s the difference between this (A 1) and Section A?

Coda: The section tagged on the end for a nice finish!

The Italian terms: Sub. (short for subito) ________________ Poco a poco _________________________ Crescendo ___________________________  Accel. (short for accelerando) _____________

Practicing ‘Russia – Gopak’ •

Practice each section individually…  –

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until you can play them confidently, using the right rhythm and notes. with the correct dynamic markings ( p,  f , mf …) focusing on using the bow well to make your best sound.

Practice all the sections in the right order (poshly called ‘ternary form with a coda’!)

A A B A1 CODA