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Recommended Solos and Ensembles Tenor Trombone Solos Sång Till
Recommended Solos and Ensembles Tenor Trombone Solos Sång till Lotta, Jan Sandström. Edition Tarrodi: Stockholm, Sweden, 1991. Trombone and piano. Requires modest range (F – g flat1), well-developed lyricism, and musicianship. There are two versions of this piece, this and another that is scored a minor third higher. Written dynamics are minimal. Although phrases and slurs are not indicated, it is a SONG…encourage legato tonguing! Stephan Schulz, bass trombonist of the Berlin Philharmonic, gives a great performance of this work on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn8569oTBg8. A Winter’s Night, Kevin McKee, 2011. Available from the composer, www.kevinmckeemusic.com. Trombone and piano. Explores the relative minor of three keys, easy rhythms, keys, range (A – g1, ossia to b flat1). There is a fine recording of this work on his web site. Trombone Sonata, Gordon Jacob. Emerson Edition: Yorkshire, England, 1979. Trombone and piano. There are no real difficult rhythms or technical considerations in this work, which lasts about 7 minutes. There is tenor clef used throughout the second movement, and it switches between bass and tenor in the last movement. Range is F – b flat1. Recorded by Dr. Ron Babcock on his CD Trombone Treasures, and available at Hickey’s Music, www.hickeys.com. Divertimento, Edward Gregson. Chappell Music: London, 1968. Trombone and piano. Three movements, range is modest (G-g#1, ossia a1), bass clef throughout. Some mixed meter. Requires a mute, glissandi, and ad. lib. flutter tonguing. Recorded by Brett Baker on his CD The World of Trombone, volume 1, and can be purchased at http://www.brettbaker.co.uk/downloads/product=download-world-of-the- trombone-volume-1-brett-baker. -
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS GEORGE BENJAMIN, Conductor
Monday, August 12, 8 p.m. Florence Gould Auditorium, Seiji Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS GEORGE BENJAMIN, conductor GEORGE BENJAMIN Written on Skin (2009-12; U.S. premiere) Opera in Three Parts after the anonymous 13th century razo “Guillem de Cabestanh—Le Coeur Mangé” Text by Martin Crimp Concert performance Agnès.......................LAURENSNOUFFER,soprano Protector . .EVAN HUGHES, bass-baritone* Angel 1/Boy . .AUGUSTINE MERCANTE, countertenor Angel 2/Marie . .TAMMY COIL, mezzo-soprano Angel3/John...........................ISAIAHBELL,tenor Opera activities at Tanglewood are supported by a grant from the Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation and the Tanglewood Music Center Opera Fund. *Guest artist George Benjamin (b.1960) Written on Skin, Opera in Three Parts (2009-12) SYNOPSIS by Martin Crimp Part One I. Chorus of Angels “Erase the Saturday car-park from the market place—fade out the living—snap back the dead to life.” A Chorus of Angels takes us back 800 years, to a time when every book is a precious object “written on skin”. They bring to life two of the story’s protagonists: the Protector, a wealthy and intelligent landowner “addicted to purity and violence,” and his obedient wife—his “property” —Agnès. One of the angels then transforms into the third protagonist— “the Boy”—an illuminator of manuscripts. II. The Protector, Agnès and the Boy In front of his wife, the Protector asks the Boy to celebrate his life and good deeds in an illuminated book. It should show his enemies in Hell, and his own family in Paradise. As proof of his skill the Boy shows the Protector a flattering miniature of a rich and merciful man. -
Bass Drum Journal May 2018 of the Harvard University B and Vol
the bAss Drum JournAl May 2018 of the hArvArD university b AnD Vol. 98 No. 1 three Cheers for 100 yeArs ne of the really special things to me about the band is our Ohistory and the traditions that have emerged from it. When I was interviewing everyone running for junior staff, I asked each of them what their favorite silly band tradition was. I originally intended this to reduce tension and allow any nervous freshmen to relax with an easy frst question, but the responses I received highlighted many of the wonderful aspects of band. My most shocking takeaway from that question was that no two people had the same answer. All 24 people who were interviewed each had The Band caroling in downTown BosTon To spread The holiday spiriT a unique favorite tradition. While many we lead the band into its 100th year, answers were the ones I would expect: as many playing the bottle cheer. Looking maintaining its history and adding to it march down, flower/flour, confetti, forward, planning for the 100th Reunion is while we go. I’ve loved working with verse 2, cuts, and Bagpipes, there well underway. The reunion will take place on you all these past six months, and I were also many traditions the weekend of October 12th, 2019 when our have no doubts that you will all be great I had never even thought football team takes on Cornell. We’d love going forward and make the band even of, such as the trumpets to have as many crusts as possible, and I better. -
TC 1-19.30 Percussion Techniques
TC 1-19.30 Percussion Techniques JULY 2018 DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release: distribution is unlimited. Headquarters, Department of the Army This publication is available at the Army Publishing Directorate site (https://armypubs.army.mil), and the Central Army Registry site (https://atiam.train.army.mil/catalog/dashboard) *TC 1-19.30 (TC 12-43) Training Circular Headquarters No. 1-19.30 Department of the Army Washington, DC, 25 July 2018 Percussion Techniques Contents Page PREFACE................................................................................................................... vii INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... xi Chapter 1 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PERCUSSION PLAYING ................................................. 1-1 History ........................................................................................................................ 1-1 Definitions .................................................................................................................. 1-1 Total Percussionist .................................................................................................... 1-1 General Rules for Percussion Performance .............................................................. 1-2 Chapter 2 SNARE DRUM .......................................................................................................... 2-1 Snare Drum: Physical Composition and Construction ............................................. -
T19i EVOLUTION of the ROLE of the SOLO TROMBONE in THE
t19I A/o.80 EVOLUTION OF THE ROLE OF THE SOLO TROMBONE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS By Karl G. Hinterbichler, B.M., M.M. Denton, Texas May, 1974 Hinterbichler, Karl G., Evolution of the Role of the Solo Trombone in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.: A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of Frescobaldi, White, Druckman, Jones, Baecher, Ott and Others. Doctor of Musical Arts, May, 1974, 43 pp., 18 illustrations, b bliography, 67 titles. The evolution of the role of the trombone as a solo instrument in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be traced most effectively through four schools of playing, with the music of today's avant-garde being a logical historical culmination of these four schools. It will be demons t rated that the avant-garde's use of the solo trombone has merely continued the evolutionary process started in the early nineteenth century. The contribution of the early nineteenth-century virtuosi was the establishment of the idea that the trombone could compete on its own terms with other instruments as a solo instrument. In addition to expanding the technical capabilities, they also left a basic solo repertoir. With the death of the virtuosi the trombone as a solo instrument went into a decline. For the remainder of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century the Paris Conservatoire was influential. Standards of solo performance were )rou ht to new heights by exclecnt study material and contest solos. -
How to Purchase Concert Percussion Accessories Cymbals
How To Purchase Concert Percussion Accessories by Neil W. Grover A more accurate title for this piece should be, “Concert Percussion Accessories; What To Purchase?” Buying is the easy part, deciding what to purchase is the task at hand. Acquiring a viable array of instruments for a student percussionist is an important, yet often neglected, part of a music educator’s core responsibilities. All too often, I encounter band rooms where quality percussion accessories are lacking, and unacceptable substitutes are used. For some reason, percussion accessories seem to be relegated to bottom of a music educator’s line item budget. Excuses like “my percussionists just don’t take care of the accessories” or “we already have a (rock) tambourine” breed an atmosphere whereby students are forced to play on inadequate instruments which would make even a pro like me sound unmusical! Playing musically is difficult enough with a good quality triangle, no less a cheap piece of junk! It’s important to realize that quality should not come at the expense of quantity. While being sensitive to budget restrictions is more important than ever, it is possible for the average music department to identify, and (over time), purchase an array of quality percussion accessories, which when cared for, provide many years of trouble free service. Percussion accessories run the gamut from whip to flexatone: triangle to log drum. For the purpose of this article, I will concentrate on those instruments which are most critical and basic to the educational percussion program. Cymbals Cymbals are instruments of great artistic expression. Just listen to a recording of Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet Overture”, or Debussy’s tone poem “La Mer.” Ah, those glorious overtones, which can only be produced by a good set of cymbals. -
Vocal Philologies: Written on Skin and the Troubadours
Vocal Philologies: Written on Skin and the Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/oq/article/33/3-4/207/4801221 by University of California, Irvine user on 14 September 2020 Troubadours emma dillon king’s college london Parchment or slate were precious materials to the medieval scholar—or com- poser—and they were used repeatedly for successive sketching. Today, many cen- turies later, surviving manuscripts appear chaotic, with a surface complexity almost resembling organic growth, although their straight lines reveal they are man-made. In deciphering these mysterious objects one can unravel the sequence of layers and trace back to the initial text. —George Benjamin, program note to Palimpsests for Orchestra (1998À2002)1 Protector: What is it that you are looking at? Boy: Nothing, says the Boy, thumbing the knife. Protector: Thinking about? Boy: I’m thinking that when this wood and this light are cut through by eight lanes of poured concrete, I’m thinking that the two of us and everyone we love will have been dead for a thousand years. Protector: The future’s easy: tell me about now. —George Benjamin, Written on Skin, text for music by Martin Crimp (Part II, scene 9)2 Parchment is an unexpected vocal source to bring to a special issue on the voice in contemporary opera studies. In a field such as medieval studies, my more familiar scholarly habitat, parchment is the common currency of the voice: the ultimate proxy for vocal acts that are long since gone. Voice in the context of parchment is synonymous with the philological activity required to decipher information about song-acts as they were transmitted, reworked, and sometimes corrupted in the me- dium of ink, notation, and skin. -
Hannigan Ascending BACH ST
PRICELESS! Vol 20 No 5 CONCERT LISTINGS | FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 7 2015 Hannigan Ascending BACH ST. JOHN PASSION BACH ST. JOHN PASSION BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! HOUSE OF DREAMS DIRECTED BY IVARS TAURINS Mar 19-22, 2015 Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Jeanne Lamon Hall DIRECTED BY Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra JEANNE LAMON and Chamber Choir CONCEIVED, SCRIPTED, AND Julia Doyle, soprano PROGRAMMED BY Daniel Taylor, countertenor ALISON MACKAY Charles Daniels, tenor Peter Harvey, baritone Feb 11-15, 2015 Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, Jeanne Lamon Hall “A testament to his faith, Bach’s Passions speak to us of the Journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music fea- turing music by , , , and more. greater human experience through music Bach Handel Vivaldi of powerful drama and profound beauty.” Don’t miss this stunning multimedia — IVARS TAURINS event before it goes on tour to Australia! A CO-PRODUCTION WITH Stage Direction by Marshall Pynkoski Production Design by Glenn Davidson Projection Design by Raha Javanfar 416.964.6337 Narrated by Blair Williams tafelmusik.org SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR The TSO and festival curator George Benjamin join forces with Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan for new sounds, cutting-edge drama, and 7 premières! A Mind of Winter SAT, FEB 28 AT 8pm Peter Oundjian, conductor and host George Benjamin, conductor Barbara Hannigan, soprano Jonathan Crow, violin Dai Fujikura: Tocar y Luchar (CANADIAN PREMIÈRE) George Benjamin: A Mind of Winter (CANADIAN PREMIÈRE) Vivian Fung: Violin Concerto No. 2 “Of Snow and Ice”(WORLD PREMIÈRE/TSO COMMISSION) Dutilleux: Métaboles Pre-concert Performance, Intermission Chat, and Post-concert Party in the Lobby. -
T H E P Ro G
08-11 Skin_GP2 copy 7/30/15 2:46 PM Page 1 Tuesday Evening, August 11, 2015 at 7:30 Thursday Evening, August 13, 2015 at 7:30 m Saturday Afternoon, August 15, 2015 at 3:00 a r g o Written on Skin (U.S. stage premiere) r P Opera in Three Parts e Music by George Benjamin h Text by Martin Crimp T This performance is approximately one hour and 40 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic as part of the Lincoln Center–New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative (Program continued) Please make certain all your electronic devices are switched off. The Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of Written on Skin is made possible in part by major support from Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon. These performances are made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Cen ter. David H. Koch Theater 08-11 Skin_GP2 copy 7/30/15 2:46 PM Page 2 Mostly Mozart Festival The Mostly Mozart Festival is made possible by Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, Chris and Bruce Crawford, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation, and Friends of Mostly Mozart. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts. Artist Catering provided by Zabar’s and zabars.com MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center United Airlines is a Supporter of Lincoln Center WABC-TV is a Supporter of Lincoln Center “Summer at Lincoln Center” is supported by Diet Pepsi Time Out New York is a Media Partner of Summer at Lincoln Center Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. -
The Role of Turkish Percussion in the History and Development of the Orchestral Percussion Section
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Major Papers Graduate School 2003 The oler of Turkish percussion in the history and development of the orchestral percussion section D. Doran Bugg Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_majorpapers Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Bugg, D. Doran, "The or le of Turkish percussion in the history and development of the orchestral percussion section" (2003). LSU Major Papers. 27. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_majorpapers/27 This Major Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Major Papers by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ROLE OF TURKISH PERCUSSION IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORCHESTRAL PERCUSSION SECTION A Monograph Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts In The School of Music The College of Music and Dramatic Arts by D. Doran Bugg B.M.E., University of Mississippi, 1988 M.M., Baylor University, 1990 December 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the many persons who so generously contributed their time, knowledge, and support during the preparation and completion of this monograph. Special thanks are extended to Professor James Byo, Professor Larry Campbell, Professor Michael Kingan, Professor Patricia Lawrence, Professor John Raush, Professor Joseph Skillen, and Professor James West, members of my doctoral committee. -
The Physics of Musical Instruments
The Physics of Musical Instruments Neville H. Fletcher Thomas D. Rossing The Physics of Musical Instruments With 408 Illustrations Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong Barcelona Budapest Neville H. Fletcher Thomas D. Rossing CSIRO Australia Department of Physics Research School of Physical Sciences Northern Illinois University Australian National University De Kalb, IL 60115 Canberra, A.c.T. 2601 USA Australia Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fletcher, Neville H. (Neville Horner) The physics of musical instruments/Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN-13:978-0-387 -94151-6 I. Music-Acoustics and physics. 2. Musical instruments- Construction. l. Rossing, Thomas D., 1929- II. Title. ML3805.F58 1993 784.19'OI'53-dc20 93-27442 Printed on acid-free paper. © 1991 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in con nection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. -
Opera Today : Written on Skin at Lincoln Center
Opera Today : Written on Skin at Lincoln Center HOME COMMENTARY FEATURED OPERAS NEWS Aïda at Aspen Most opera professionals, including the individuals REPERTOIRE who do the casting for major houses, despair of REVIEWS finding performers who can match historical ABOUT standards of singing in operas such as Aïda. Yet a CONTACT concert performance in Aspen gives a glimmer of LINKS hope. It was led by four younger singers who may SEARCH SITE be part of the future of Verdi singing in America and the world. Prom 53: Shostakovich — Orango One might have been forgiven for thinking that both biology and chronology had gone askew at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening. Written on Skin at Lincoln Center Three years ago I made what may have been my single worst decision in a half century of attending Subscribe to opera. I wasn’t paying close attention when some Opera Today 28 Aug 2015 Receive articles and conference organizers in Aix-en-Provence offered news via RSS feeds or me two tickets to the premiere of a new opera. I email subscription. opted instead for what seemed like a sure thing: Written on Skin at Lincoln Center Feature Articles William Christie conducting some Charpentier. La Púrpura de la Rosa Advertised in the program as the first opera written Three years ago I made what may have been my single in the New World, La Púrpura de la Rosa (PR) was worst decision in a half century of attending opera. I premiered in 1701 in Lima (Peru), but more than the historical feat, true or not, accounts for the wasn’t paying close attention when some conference piece’s interest.