I'm now looking at a couple of booklet/handbooks (way too hefty to be
simply called programs) from the Bayreuth Festival seasons of 1930 and
1931. Each has a quadruple fold-out list of the cast and orchestra
(conductors - Furtwaengler, Muck, Toscanini, Elmendorff, S. Wagner). With 2
complete Rings
Can anyone suggest a reading list of books that deal specifically
with 'how=
' to approach practicing the horn, not 'what' to practice?
Michael Hoeltzel devotes a chapter to "The Art of Practicing" in his
"Mastery of the French Horn." He not only discusses effective
practice methods, but
Hello Steve,
Kjellruns tumb rules are valid with the exception of C-alto, which is not
explicitely noted such. This special transposition is found in certain Haydn
ouvertures, in Mozarts Idomeneo etc. but rarely i the music of the 19th cent.
You have well noted, that the horn parts would be far t
Thank you and thanks to Kjellrun for your replies.
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> From: Paul Mansur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Beethoven #1, Horn in C - Alto or Basso?
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> Beethoven 1 is Horn in C bass
Beethoven 1 is Horn in C basso, down a P4 for playing a horn in F.
Paul Mansur
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
I was looking at a score of Beethoven Symphony #1 and saw a pair of
horns in
C - does one assume this to be concert pitch (up a fifth) or C
basso (down a
fourth
Basso.
As a rough rule of thumb, take Bb as a point of demarcation.
Transpositions between F and Bb above (F#, G, A, Bb alto) transpose UP.
Those between F and Bb below (E, Eb, D, C, B/H, Bb Basso), transpose
DOWN. ALL horn transpositions sound lower than concert pitch.
There are some exc
I was looking at a score of Beethoven Symphony #1 and saw a pair of horns in
C - does one assume this to be concert pitch (up a fifth) or C basso (down a
fourth and therefore 1 octave below concert pitch) from the usual Horn in F?
Just from the looks of the part, I am guessing it's C-basso. I don'
The Schumann Konzertstueck thread:
Yes, there is a 4-horns-only-score, also a piano reduction & a conductor score,
published earlier by KaWeAmsterdam, which is part of my publishing, since I
acquired this company after the death of Klaas Weelink 1983.
This piece has not been written for the aver
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Subject: on the streets (was 2 horns and strings)
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Date: Fri, October 24, 2008 8:35 am
To: "horn list memphis"
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Carl Bangs writes:
A movement from an early Haydn symphony might
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