So many questions...I guess I could've been a bit more specific with my last posting, my bad.
Well, my friend generally plays alto sax but tenor and bari are also options. Ideally, we thought it'd be fun to try a duet written specifically for horn and saxophone with or without piano, but we're open to all options. My friend takes theory classes and is an excellent musician so I assume he's at least halfway decent at transposition. I'm not too bad at it myself but the only real experiences I've had with transposing were with horn in E, Eb, D, and G. We haven't thought too much about what style we'd like to play, assuming that we'd have a heck of a time trying to find a duet specifically for horn and saxophone in the first place. We'd like to do a fairly difficult piece too, seeing that we both have scored very high at state contests in the past and we'd really like to challenge ourselves. Well, I hope that's a bit less vague than my last posting, and again, any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks! --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 5:38 PM -0700 9/6/05, Shannon Midbrod wrote: > >I was wondering if anyone out there knows of some > good horn and saxophone > duets?? A friend > and I would like to do one for a high school music > contest. Thanks much! > > > Greetings, Shannon - > > Well, not really, I don't know offhand of any > perfect duets for you. I > assume that you play Horn in F > and yout friend plays either Saxophone in Eb or > Saxophone in Bb. > > Don't get me wrong, I've had plenty of fun playing > tenor sax in a garage > band, it was just I was > always playing in F#. So, you know I have nothing > against saxophones. Or > guitars, even thought > they seem to like to play in E. > > So if horns play F parts and saxes play Eb or Bb > parts, what on earth is > there to do? > > Have you thought about that? > > Are you looking for a duet written for horn and sax > specifically? There's > pieces for horn, sax and > piano, and some good ones. Will one of these work? I > can send you some > suggestions if you like. > > If you are a virtuoso horn player you probably don't > play Horn in F. You > probably play horn, and can > transpose. It this is true, then you can play just > about any duet. > > But you didn't say with kind of duet. Jazz? > Classical? Romantic? > Contemporary? > > What level? > > Ah, so many unanswered questions before a real > answer can come to the > surface. > > I don't suppose there's many sax players who can > transpose. Does your > friend transpose? Don't > worry, some of my best friends are woodwind players, > they even make their > living doing it, and > some have only the most rudimentary knowledge about > transposition. It's > just that to be something > other than a button pusher, you've got to know how > the music goes, and > you've got to know your > instrument. With these two skills and a bit of > thought, you can transpose. > > What will it be? Nicolai horn duets in Eb with an > alto sax? Telemann > canonic sonatas transposed > from C? Hindemith bass clef duets with your reading > in C and a bari sax > reading as is and altering > the key signature and accidentals? > > Best from Guanajuato, > > Carlberg > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/littlesmurf_upnorth%40yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
