Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

2. Quintet in C, K.515 (First Movement) (W.A. Mozart)


3. Prelude No. 1 in C, BWV 933 (J.S. Bach)


4. “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman,” Variation 2 (W.A. Mozart)


5. “Ma Che Fu Chi Lian” (“Love Story of the Wagon Driver”), Chinese folk song
   Tap the treble clef rhythm with the right hand and the bass clef rhythm with the left hand.

BASICS OF RHYTHM

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Born Alberto Aguilera Valadez (1950–), Juan Gabriel is one of the most popular Mexican singer/songwriters. Naming himself “Juan”

in honor of the man who was his first music teacher and mentor, and “Gabriel” for his father, a field laborer who died tragically,

Gabriel has written and recorded over a thousand songs in a variety of genres: Latin-Mexican pop, mariachi, and ranchera.

In this song, Gabriel sadly mourns the Mexico that he knew and loved, but is no longer. “There are no women with shawls,

men are no longer farmers, and the pitcher does not go to the well. Industrialism broke it.”

Cultural note: Juan Gabriel

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