RE: [Hornlist] Villanelle - best advice

2005-04-09 Thread hans
The best advice for you, as you worked up to a year on that piece: Learn to study & polish a piece such as Villanelle within a short time, say one week. Learn to study a lot of pieces, every week another five to 8 minutes solo or every two weeks a new concerto. How woill you survive in the orches

Re: [Hornlist] Villanelle

2005-04-09 Thread JeremyWray325
Try to be a little less cockyworks wonders. "As strange as this might sound, I am a High school senior who played "Villanelle" by Paul Dukas for the solo & ensemble contest." As strange as it may sound.Are you implying that you're "special" because you played it? Well that was the firs

Re: RE: [Hornlist] Open Throat

2005-04-09 Thread Steven Slaff
The syllables most commonly taught are "ah," "oh," or "ooh" for an open and less restricted airway. Translated into articulation, this means attacking a note with tah, toh, or too. I was just thumbing through the book on Arnold Jacobs by Brian Frederikson and this is what Jacobs (among others)

RE: [Hornlist] Open Throat

2005-04-09 Thread Steve Freides
Short "a", as in "father." When singing, ideally the throat is open for all vowels. For "ah" the mouth is also wide open and the tongue flat. Gradually raising the tongue causes "ah" to become "a" as it "cat", then "eh", a sound which doesn't really exist in English and is instead usually mang

Re: [Hornlist] Open Throat

2005-04-09 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 8:35 PM -0400 4/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What is is good vowel to say to open the throat? A? Altoids? Carlberg Jones Guanajuato, Gto. MEXICO ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/

[Hornlist] Villanelle

2005-04-09 Thread William Foss
As strange as this might sound, I am a High school senior who played "Villanelle" by Paul Dukas for the solo & ensemble contest. I got a "One" rating and will advance to the state level. I have been working on this piece for about a year, to get it to this point (which earned me a scholarship at

[Hornlist] Open Throat

2005-04-09 Thread Tokidoleg
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RE: [Hornlist] Pieces with extended techniques

2005-04-09 Thread Linda
Douglas Hill has written a book titled "Extended Techniques For The Horn Book And CD" that is available, among other places, at Sheet Music Plus online http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=3322060647439261&target=smp_de tail.html%26sku%3DWB.EL96105CD&s=pages-no-referrer&e=/sheetmusic/detai

RE: [Hornlist] Pieces with extended techniques

2005-04-09 Thread David Mickus
Just so that everyone knows, I am not unwilling to do the research - I am doing the library and inter-library loan and Google and electronic resource search stuff that goes along with every research project I've ever done. I do know, however, that in a subject as specialized as this, some informat

RE: [Hornlist] Pieces with extended techniques

2005-04-09 Thread Bill Gross
Now begin the diatribes about students not able to use the library, students not able to use Google, students not able to appreciate the fact that in "my day" I had to walk five miles to the practice hall in snow drifts five feet deep, uphill both ways. _

[Hornlist] Philip Myers Masterclass and Performance

2005-04-09 Thread Alex
Let's try this again in plain text. Hello hornlisters, Philip Myers (principal horn NY Phil) will be visiting the San Francisco Bay Area in April. He will be giving a masterclass at the San Francisco Conservatory and performing in the Monterey area. Here are the details: Masterclass: Date: Ap

[Hornlist] Pieces with extended techniques

2005-04-09 Thread David Mickus
Hello everyone. Our final project in our music history class is to write a paper on a twentieth century work for your instrument (or featuring it prominently) which utilizes extended techniques. We have to perform excerpts from the work demonstrating these techniques. I was wondering if there ar