Málaga Violín Suzuki, Cordes Espai Educatiu from Alboraya and the Aula Suzuki de Buñol met for a series of two concerts.
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One of them was held in the Buñol’s Montecarlo Theater.
Nitty Music participated in the #cello along with his teacher Maite Galarza.
Go Tell Aunt Rhody – Shinichi Suzuki’s Arrangement
The tune known as “Rousseau’s Dream” is derived from the opening of the “Pantomime” section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 1752 opera Le Devin du village (The Village Fortune Teller).
Sometime in the late 1780s, composers of salon music began using Rousseau’s melody for their own songs, usually by shortening the original and then adding their own words.
The earliest known example is the song Sweet Melissa, Lovely Maiden by J. Dale, published ca. 1789 in London, which uses a version of the melody quite similar to the original.
The name “Rousseau’s Dream” was apparently first used in print in 1812, with the London publication of Variations on “Rousseau’s Dream” (for solo piano), by J. B. Cramer.
Cramer’s version of the tune contains two slight but significant alterations: the first phrase ends on scale degree 1 (instead of 2), and the second phrase (m.3) begins a third higher than the original.
These changes are interesting because they continued through the next century, as Rousseau’s dream gradually evolved into the American folk song Go Tell Aunt Rhody.
There are many documented variants of the Go Tell Aunt Rhody tune, but the vast majority of them contain only four bars, repeating again for each new verse. The tune that appears in Suzuki’s books, however, uses the same 12-bar “A-B-A” form as Cramer’s version, so it is more accurate to refer to Suzuki’s tune as Rousseau’s Dream.