ABRSM Grade 1 C2

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: Whats 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: Whats 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?

Section A1: A new take on an old musical idea

Q1: Whats the difference between this (A1) 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
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