La Mariposa Michael Hopkins

La Mariposa Michael Hopkins"La Mariposa", or "The Butterfly" in English, gives students exposure to Latin music in the form of the Mambo. The Mambo is a syncopated style of music and dance that originated in Cuba in the early 1900s. Alternating between D major and D minor, the melodic material in "La Mariposa", composed by Lorrie Baum, is evenly distributed between the high and low strings. The easy optional percussion parts add great dimension to the Latin feel of this piece.

To the string orchestra used in this very creative and festive setting

“Andiamo

In order to set up the Great Gate section which is in F

It begins with pizzicato raindrops and of course later includes “barking” and “meowing

Catalonia boasts a long and varied history of music and music making

dilated and superimposed on itself as a sort of bimodality

eyes-blazing

Master arranger Lorrie Baum has infused this combination of "Turkey in the Straw"

and a cowbell

All three pieces share the same simple dance structure

but he does not

composed by Mekel Rogers