Hello Steve, you know what we did back in the 1950ies ? We had no other copy machine than hand & a pen & music paper. So we copied the pieces by hand including the piano part & necessary transpositions. We also transposed full piano parts. Work began very slow but grow to a full page per hour or more than one full page (piano plus solo). The quality of writing music grow better from day to day. And: we gained a lot from writing a piece by hand. We got it into our brain & it is still stored there. So in total, we saved a lot of time as we combined the necessary with the practical. We got a real picture of the piece before we even began to play the first note of it. Quite a forgotten method, seen as oldfashioned & obsolete. Dont laugh, folks, it works much much better than all modern methods.
There is just one difficulty, where to find the right music paper ??? Mozart himself had a solution. He used a five-fold pencil & made the music paper by himself when the right one was not at hand. Most of us are used to get all for sale, all over the internet. How long do we have the internet, really working, ten to 15 years. How slow was it then & how expensive ? Now all is very cheap, so we use it. Dont we miss something by this abuse ? Yes, we do. We are becoming more & more lazy regarding using our own brain capacities to solve problems. I receive a lot of request to provide students with certain articles as they are writing a thesis or similar. I point them to libraries & literature I had used, but not to articles they just change here & there & "sell" them as their own creations to their (often very stupid & uninformed) professors, who often lack a great deal of basic informations. Would you believe it, there is a full time Hochschule professor for horn, who never ever worked in an orchestra. He got his job to teach future professionals. But I might ask in all modesty, how he could prepare the young future colleagues for their job ?? Never exposed to the task of playing in the orchestra ? Etcetcetc. The results can be heard during the auditions. A never ending story. And I wonder about the advice coming from half amateurs, about very very special tasks they never have been exposed too or tasks they know just from hear-say. Very funny. Would any of you give advice to a rope-dancer ? Surely not. But why not, as you do the same in basic: just walking forward & back. You dont like the comparison, but I like it as it is exactly the same what several of you do when giving advice how to solve a task you never experienced yourself. Load your guns & shoot at me. I have nothing to lose - 70 days more until retirement, ending 40 years in a world class orchestra with playing Richard Wagners long 3 act opera Parsifal on first chair - after total 50 years as first horn (professional) - , having experienced all highs & lows of the professional life & found a solution all the time, having seen the whole world except very very few "white places on the map", except Africa. But the fighter character still remains, believe me, it is one of the necessary requisites for a first horn. And, remember, having learned from Siegfried, I bathed in the dragons blood and there was no lime-tree leaf on my back to create a weak point in my panzer for Hagen´s spear ............ ============================================================ ================================================ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Freides Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6:33 AM To: 'The Horn List' Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Place to buy Mozart Concerti horn parts online The horn part for Concerto #2 is in Eb, no doubt the original, but my son is used to the transcriptions in F. How can one change the key? -S- > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:14 PM > To: The Horn List > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Place to buy Mozart Concerti horn parts online > > Which one? Mutopia [www.mutopiaproject.org] has useable horn parts for > #'s 2 and 3 for free. The neat part about the site is if you want to > change something (transposition, articulation, wrong note) you can do > it yourself. (Note: I typeset Horn concerto No.2 so complain to me for > any mistakes). > > -----Jay > > On 1/19/07, Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We need, if we can, to purchase online the horn parts to the Mozart > > Concerti > > - we have the piano reduction but the horn part is at concert pitch. > > Anyplace that anyone knows of that sells a print-out-able copy? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -S- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > > unsubscribe or set options at > > > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/horndude77%40 gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/steve%40frida ys > computer.com > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
