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2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
Two of my nice double horns are ready for shipment. Both silver & gold plated as usual. If you are interested seriously, write me off the list please. There is a possibility also, to make two Viennese Pumpenhorns with the valve pistons made of titanium (means ever lasting), special light & fast ac

Re: [Hornlist] Alexander triple

2006-05-21 Thread Wilbert Kimple
Nelson, I currently play an Alex 309 triple. It's like the 107 descant I had before, but with a compensating low F side added on. This horn does everything!!! Am currently using a Pizka mouthpiece on it, which has really opened up the bottom, but has also make the area above the staff rock so

Re: [Hornlist] Alexander triple

2006-05-21 Thread Wilbert Kimple
Nelson, I currently play an Alex 309 triple. It's like the 107 descant I had before, but with a compensating low F side added on. This horn does everything!!! Am currently using a Pizka mouthpiece on it, which has really opened up the bottom, but has also make the area above the staff rock so

[Hornlist] Rachel´s postings NHR

2006-05-21 Thread jjhornman
Hi Rachel, I think you have a lot of great things to say, but is there any possibility you could keep it down to one posting a day or at least consolidate your postings? Today there were at least 6 postings that could have been skillfully consolidated into one posting. Your thoughts and idea

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Good explanation and more in depth than mine! Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Bjerre wrote: > > -snip- > > > During my musicological studies, I have been quite a bit > > around jazz theory. And there the same chord (Db in C major > > is not consi

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Joshua Cheuvront
I suppose I wasn't quite clear in my earlier post. My point was that ear training in many schools is insufficient in comparison to music theory. Unfortunately, I can't speak from personal experience, but I watched some of my peers either breeze through or pass completely out of music theory c

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Steve Freides
Klaus Bjerre wrote: -snip- > During my musicological studies, I have been quite a bit > around jazz theory. And there the same chord (Db in C major > is not considered a subdominant, but a tritone-substitution > for the dominant, usually with the Db in the bass and with at > least a minor sev

Re: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 10:26 AM -0400 5/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like "Viola" and "Cat" Voilà, ya got it, mighty! -- Carlberg Jones Guanajuato, Gto. MEXICO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: carlbergbmug - http://skype.com/ My ISP feels that some of my e-mails are not worthy of deliverance. If you do not rece

Re: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 21/05/2006 15:17:32 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As in music, the English language has many words which sound the same but are spelled differently. Like "Viola" and "Cat" "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg" _http://lawrenceyates.co.uk_ (http://lawren

Re: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 3:31 AM + 5/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got in big trouble with music theory because I 'could' hear the chors and MISSPELLED them as many chords SOUND the same but LOOK different. I did not believe this for a few years until my teacher sat me down and explained that I must not 'l

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have all read Steve’s fine posting, so I won’t quote it. It made me wonder, why I never really can remember the precise composition of the Napolitan chord. So I found it on a web page, and then I knew why: During my musicological studies, I have

Re: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 3:31 AM + 5/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do NOT need to hear any pitches in music theory with the exception of differentiating between the intervals (a basic exercise). Just spell them exactly as instructed. Sort of like learning how to spell without learning what the words

RE: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
We once had a prior famous Italian/Argentinian guest maestro for a Verdi opera performance at the Munich National Theatre. He was very poor until the intermission & being boooed at the end. So he sneeked into the pit before dark for the econd act, jumped up when lights were turned off. So the audie

Re: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread Paul Kampen
Message text written by The Horn List >Anyway, unlike most people, she didn't laugh. She let me finish my tale then unsmiling said, "Yes, I know, it was my grandad."< Dear Lawrence and List Hmmm - this reminds me of a rehearsal years ago with a certain conductor who has now got quite a hig

RE: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
It is done in the German language, so I have to apologize as I adopted it mistakingly too often in my English letters. H.Pizka = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

[Hornlist] Recent updates to hornplayer.net (21st May 2006)

2006-05-21 Thread updates
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[Hornlist] Conductors, theory,music, etc

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
What will you do, if you have a conductor in front, who knows everything about a certain big piece and leads the piece following every flydropping in the score like it were the "Holy Evangelium", but has not 1/1000th percent of charisma & taste ? Who is a fleshless, temperamentless superbly studied

Re: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
apologies for the apostrophe in "musician's" - I do know when and when not to use the apoostrophe - it's something that infuriates me when I see it done incorrectly. Sorry, Lawrence "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg" _http://lawrenceyates.co.uk_ (http://lawrenceyates.co.uk/) Dulcian Wi

Re: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I don't remember if the bassoon player told me what was the cause of the horn player's death. As I said, this was a tale told to me - I wasn't there myself and I don't know who the horn player was. I have only played in one performance where one of the musician's died (although I have play