I avoid quarter tone pieces. My rule is if I don't want to hear it, I don't play it. Then again, I don't make a career out of the horn so I don't expect to ever be commissioned that sort of stuff. I had thought of this before though. With quarter tones, wouldn't it be easier to set one side of the horn in pitch down slightly (say the F side) and then use the Bb side primarily? Then you switch to the F side for quarter tones and you're done. Then again, what do I know. -William In a message dated 12/27/2010 2:50:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mumfordh [email protected] writes:
Hey, let's not get stuck in the 20th century! Aren't you feeling a little limited by only having 12 notes to use? One brass quintet I used to play in, the leader would respond to requests for Justin Bieber, or Chicken Train by saying "we don't have that one, but we'll play this one instead. It has a lot of the same notes in it". I remember reading quite awhile ago about an Egyptian trumpet player who had an extra quarter tone valve added to his trumpet because the traditional music he grew up with used quarter tones and he wanted to be able to play that style of music on the trumpet. Just a word to the wise for those considering gigging in Egypt. I'm glad Daniel has done this book! It's one of those things I've had in the back of my mind for quite awhile but never got around to seriously figuring out. I had figured that for the most part the quarter tones could be obtained just with fingerings. I'll be interested to see how he's done it. Great Googly Moogly! - Steve Mumford XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Hans wrote: Hello Dan, all very interesting, but for what use, as most horn players, amateurs as well as professionals, have enough problems commanding the F- & the Bb-side fingerings already. And more than that, even many professional players have problems transposing a simple musical text if there are some accidentals. How should they master the problem of quarter tones ? How will be the relation between effort to master the quarter tone issue and resulting income ? There is one good thing with quarter-tone-textes: there is no transposing involved. ########################################################## Am 27.12.2010 um 15:18 schrieb Daniel Grabois: > I'm very excited to announce that I have just published my second etude book. It is called Quarter Tone Manual for French Horn. It has 17 etudes ranging from fairly easy to extremely hard, plus lots of explanations on how to play quarter tones. There's also a section of suggestions for composers on how to write quarter tones in a way that makes them playable by horn players. > > So, apologies for the commercial plug, but you can order the book at my website, www.danielgrabois.com. > > Thanks, and Happy New Year to all horn players and their families! > Dan Grabois _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/valkhorn%40aol.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
