Violin Melody and Friends


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# Melody, Melody

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# Listen to the music

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# Let your mind run free

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# Melody, Melody

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# From a castle or the jungle

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# To the Arctic Sea... # WHALE SINGS

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# It could be as loud as a storm

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# Or quiet as a sigh

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# As dainty as a dance step

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# Or soaring high in the sky

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# Melody, Melody

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# Musical imaginings of Melody. #

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And friends!

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We're coming to meet a great friend today

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who can play a really cool instrument.

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It's made of wood, and it's played with something called a bow.

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Sometimes it's called a fiddle, just like in Hey Diddle Diddle.

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Can you guess what it is?

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When we arrive, we can hear people practising.

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HARP PLAYS

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Ooh, Melody, I can hear the harp.

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-Can you?

-Yes!

-Let's have a listen.

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MARIMBA PLAYS

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-And what else can we hear?

-I can hear the marimba!

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-Yeah!

-VIOLIN PLAYS

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And, ooh! I can hear a violin.

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It's this way, Mummy, let's go!

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-Hello!

-Hi!

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-Hi.

-Hello, Eugenie.

-Hi.

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Thank you for letting us come and see your beautiful violin.

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Could you tell us a bit about the different parts of the violin?

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This is the main body of the violin. It's made out of wood.

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These are the four strings.

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They're different thicknesses?

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-It goes from low to high, G, D, A, E.

-Yep.

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The higher strings are here, you can play really high.

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These pegs are to tune the strings.

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-That feels like a snail!

-It does, it's like a shell shape.

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-What's that part called?

-It's the scroll.

-Ah, right.

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-It's the squirrel!

-Scroll!

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Can you feel down there, Melody?

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There's a hole! Like a wiggly hole.

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-What holes are they?

-They're for the sound to come out.

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Without them, you wouldn't hear any sound.

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-Do they have a name?

-Yeah, they're the F-holes.

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They're like a curly F shape.

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And at the bottom, there seems to be quite a hard bit.

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-Can you feel that, at the bottom?

-Yeah.

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This is the chin rest, to rest your chin.

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So you have a bit of a cushion.

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So it's more comfortable to play.

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And how do you make the sound?

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You use the bow, which is also made out of wood.

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And these are horse hairs.

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And to change the tightness of the hairs,

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you twist this thing down here.

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This is not just one horse hair, but lots of horse hairs.

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-There'll be hundreds of little hairs.

-Sometimes they snap.

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Have you been in the middle of something and it breaks?

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-Yeah, some of the strings pop.

-Gosh!

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How can you use the bow?

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You put the bow on the string, and you just pull.

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Good!

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If you pulled it really fast and slow, does that change the sound?

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Yeah. Like...

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QUICK NOTES

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You can also pluck...

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SHORT NOTES

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And you use your fingers to press the notes down.

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-That's what changes the notes, when you press down?

-Yeah.

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You'd go from one...

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Fingers moving up and down.

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And with the bow, can you do different effects?

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Yeah, you can make it staccato, like...

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-VERY SHORT NOTES

-Ooh.

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And you can also do this...

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LOTS OF OVERLAPPING NOTES

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-Could I have a go?

-Would it be OK if Melody had a go?

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-Yeah.

-Brilliant. I'll take Fudge.

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So hold it really carefully.

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Want help?

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Do you want to...?

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-Remember, putting your fingers on there will change the notes.

-Yeah.

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-What do we say, Melody?

-Thank you!

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-Brilliant, thank you, Eugenie, lovely.

-That's so cool.

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-Was that fun?

-Yeah!

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-Could we hear you playing, would that be OK?

-Yeah.

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(Aw, thank you.)

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Wow! Thank you so much!

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-That was brilliant, wasn't it?

-Thank you!

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But we're going to have to go, the recital starts soon.

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-Eugenie's got to get ready.

-Good luck!

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-Thank you.

-We've got to find our friends. See you!

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-Bye, thanks, Eugenie.

-Bye!

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I'm really looking forward to this!

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We go into the concert hall

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and meet a few friends who've come to listen too.

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-Are you excited to listen to some lovely music?

-ALL:

-Yes!

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As you listen, see what pictures come into your mind.

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Fudge and I wonder what the music will make you think of.

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We sit, and the lights go down.

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Then Eugenie comes in with Debbie, who's going to play the piano.

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Hi, I'm going to play

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the first movement from Barber's Violin Concerto.

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Oh, a penguin!

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I don't know why I thought of that.

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A baby penguin too!

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Aw, I think he's nervous.

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Go on, little one!

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Ooh, look, they're not nervous.

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I think he wants to follow them.

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They've gone into the sea.

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Ooh, gosh!

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That looks high!

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The penguins are dancing.

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He dived into the sea.

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Penguins swim so gracefully.

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They're all dancing now.

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He did it!

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That was wonderful!

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After the recital,

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Mum and I talk with our friends about what they thought.

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Hi!

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So, did you enjoy listening to Eugenie play the violin?

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Yes!

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It made me think of a baby penguin.

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Great! Let's listen and see what the music makes you think of?

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And when you listen, let your imaginations run free.

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THE CONCERTO PLAYS

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Everybody listens really hard.

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Lydia had an idea first.

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It made me think of musicals,

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when people sing and dance.

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I saw lots of people at a ball dancing,

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and the men were wearing a suit,

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and the ladies were wearing really poufy dresses.

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And there was a disco ball.

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Stella, what did you see in your imagination?

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People at the ball, and one person was late, like the Cinderella story.

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TICK, TICK, TICK...

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BONG! BONG! BONG!

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Then Otis has an idea.

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It made me think of animation,

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like you see the animation being drawn,

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and the animation's being drawn, and the animation is

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a person jumping over flowers in a massive field.

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They've got a really white dress, and they've got really long hair.

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Mummy, what does the music make you think of?

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-Oh, well, do you want to know what I thought of?

-Yes!

-Good question.

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Well, I thought of a spider, spinning an amazing web.

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But a giant web. The spider was really happy.

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There was lots of raindrops glistening on the web.

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And the faster the music went, the faster it spun.

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Well done, everyone. What fabulous ideas.

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I love listening to all your stories.

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And don't forget to keep using your imagination.

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-Bye!

-Bye!

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I hope they never forget to use their imaginations.

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Eugenie's violin made us think of all sorts of different ideas.

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So, did you like the ideas the other children had, Melody?

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Yes, I loved then!

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The same music can mean different things to different people.

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-Mummy, can I listen to it again, please?

-Course you can.

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That music made me think of a young penguin.

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What did it make you think of?

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