This is an introspective musical piece with four very important horn parts.
It open with the horns playing horn calls and echos. Later is some wery
effective unison horn calls. Chambers Orchestral excerpts Volume III has all
of the important parts. The Allegro Vivace section which is in the gall
To my knowledge, in :Il Re Pastori there are two arias. The first (in C minor)
with two horns in E flat and two horns in C. After the recitative there is
another aria ( in C major ) with 4 horns in C. This is in the second act of the
opera. Regards.
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I have had several requests for the Frehse Concerto. I am happy to send e mail
copies of the 1911 copy from my library. The reprint in 1952 was from a East
German publisher (VEB Hofmeister - Leipzig). Thus both the original publication
and the reprint are not copyright protected. I should point
The Alban Frehse, Horn Konzert, exists (in the US) in the horn and piano
arrangement published by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig (1911), and reprinted by
VEB Hofmeister, Frankfurt am Main (1952). The piano arrangement is not
credited, I do not believe that Frehse made it. Possibly William Kruger,
That is true. The composition is in B flat. The horn goes to high D, I think
three times. The vinyl, typical of the practice in that era, was produced from
a tape master that was sped up to inprone the 'brightness' of the recording. If
you look at the vidio of the recording studio you can see th
During Beethoven's lifetime, I suspect I was an expensive commodity. Mechanical
refrigeration had not yet been invented, so most ice was harvested during the
winter and stored in insulated "ice houses". Thus I think the factoid may be
inaccurate. Regards.
The Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition on CD ROM lists 9 pieces for two horns
and band. One is an American arrangement of an opera duet, published by
Cundy-Bettoney (now long out of print). The others are local German
publications, which would take some digging to locate their addresses. The o
Morley-Pegge was a horn player (Student of Bremond) and musical historian,
published his book "The French Horn" in 1960. It is comprehensive and well
illustrated, at least the first edition, which is in my library. For those
seriously interested in the horn, this book- plus those by Robin Gregor
Naybody happen to have the first horn part. I have the second part, However the
usual library sources, including the Library of Congressm does not. A copy by e
mail would be appreciated. Thanks
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Referring to an old Sansone catalogue (1952); He marketed many different horn
models. His design with the B flat slides on top of the F slides was his Model
#5. The model that was the copy of the Conn 8D was his model # 5C. His copy of
the Schmidt double with the piston change valve was his mode
Good research. Thanks. You are fortunate to have had access to the score. I
comclude that Gumpert is the culprit. But why Schumann when operas by Halevy
are included in other volumes of Gumpert's Orchestral Excerpts? Well, we can
always blame someone else, perhaps the printer. Regards.
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The Schott publication is an arrangement by Willy Hess. The first 157
measures of the original manuscript are lost, as is the trio section of the
minuet and the entire last movement. Hess recreated the first 157 measures
using music from the portions of the original manuscript that survive.
Alt
The Excerpt "Der Rosenfee" (Pink Fairy) first appeared in Gumbert Orchestral
Excerpts - Volume 1. Pottag obviously copied into his own volumes of orchestral
excerpts. Note the orientation, measure layout and fonts are identical. Now for
the hard part. I cannot associate it to any of Schumann's w
Heinichen Concerto has a range from middle C to D above high C. It is
Published by Editions Kunzelmann, Zurich or Edition Robert Oestermeyer,
Leipzig. According to the Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition. Regards.
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Knew Gordon Mumma from high school days (Ferndale Michigan) and College
(University of Michigan). A good horn player, he moved into avant guarde
music in college. His music "Hornpipe" was originally scored for solo horn,
but played with a bassoon reed. Unusual, to say the least, and only modestl
I agree with the horn list. Brahms intended it to be for waldhorn (without
valves), violin and piano. Brahms played the piano part in the premiere and
in many recitals later on. The piano part is massive and difficult, after
all Brahms was an awsome piano virtuoso. The waldhorn suits the charact
I regret that I cannot cite the sources specifically. but, to the best of my
knowledge 1. Schumann did write the Koncertstucj for 4 solo valve horns. The
Orchestra parts are in F and are modest in nature and easily playable on either
chromatic horns or natural horns, as was the character of Schu
In my opinion Dvorak wrote for valve horns, just as Brahms did. But he chose
transpositions for horns for several reasons: 1. was to eliminate
accidentals if the part had been written in F. Wagner specifically spoke to
this, I believe in one of his letters. 2. to infer relationships with the
pa
I have played the first hotrn part in the Dvorak "Cello Concerto" many
times. Horns 1 and 2 are in E (with portions of the second movement in D and
in F), and the third horn is in D in the first movement, in D and C in the
second movement and in E and D in the third movement. The long horn solo
Although I have not seen the music, The Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition
lists this work as two horns and string orchestra. By the way the piece is a
homage to Dennis Brain. The first horn has sxtensive melodic parts. the second
horn has what I would call as a supportive role, lots of bass r
Duets for English Horn, and Horn, possibly with piano or organ. The Dallry Horn
Catalogue - 2006 Edition lists absolutely nothing for the combination. Best
guess as an alternatative are horn duets where one part is quite high. The
Mozart 12 duets come to mind. Regards.
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Dear Horn List: Am in need of the first horn part to Max Bruch, Violin Concerto
#1, Op. 26. Would appreciate if copy could be e-mailed. Perhaps in GIF ir TIF
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So true. My brother, John Dalley - a violinist tells the story about when he
was a student at Curtis. He and the other students would often job at local
symphony orchestras. One evening, when John was sitting as concertmaster, the
orchestra was playing Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals" One s
What an increase in price. I bought mine in Germany in 1977 from Waffen
Franconia (Hunting supplies) in Wurzburg for about $40.00. If you want to
use mine for a while, say a year or three, let me know and I will sent it to
you. Regards.
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Knew Jonell Lindholm for many years when she was in Michigan. She was a member
of the Washtenaw Valley Waldhorn Verein, and a member of the Ann Arbor
Symphony. She wwill be missed. Regards.
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Not omly does "Peter and the Wolf" have three horn parts, they are
prominant. The narrator announces the three as representing the Wolf. So
there are some important passanges for all three in three part harmony (In D
minor, I believe). Also the second horn part has a couple of very low bass
reg
It is a tenor horn, somewhat like a Baritone Horn but with upright bell. Common
in Europe.
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Not many pieces listed in the Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition on CD. Of
the 12 listed items only 10 are currently available. Most are published
privately by their composers. One in particular is Richard Burdick - Grand Duo,
Regina Sask., Canada. Wiener Waldhorn Verein in their catalogue lis
Jasper Rees in his recent book "I Found My Horn" discusses this Beatles tune,
and Alan Civil (who recorded the horn part). It apparently goes up to high E.
However the tape was sped up when making the transfer to disk, which makes it
sound like high F. Regards.
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Best known Welsh composer is Alun Hoddinut. He composed a Concerto, a Sonata
and a piece for horn and strings "Aubade and Scherzo". All are published (in
Horn and Piano) by Oxford. This is according to the Dalley Horn Datalogue -
2006 Edition on CD ROM. Also consider William Mathias, Concerto, a
According to the Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition on CD ROM the answer for
the Horn Concerto (1965) was written for horn and orchestra, and then arranged
by the composer for horn and winds () and then again by the composer for
horn and piano. Regards.
I cannot say for sure why early bass clef notation was an octave too low. In
my reading about the history of the horn I do not recall any discussion on
the subject. In my opinion I think that the use of the "old style" notation
occurred originally to notate C below middle C without using many le
There are so many really interesting muted passages, almost too many to
list. One thing about muted ( versus stopped ) passages is the style, or
image that the passage evokes. For instance - Ominous, could be the muted
passage in Sorcers Apprentice - Dukas. Reverse echo, could be the muted
pas
I agree with the difficulties of counting extended rests, especially in
classical concertos. I ended up writing out my own horn part and then adding
extensive cues, entrances by other instruments, measure numbers, and then on
"throw away" copies add the interpetations by the conductor and solois
My teacher recommended that the easiest way to count those long rest passages
is to count backwards. When you reach "one" you know it is time to play.
regards.
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It is interesting that your music librarian gave you the original flicorno
parts and not the transposed parts. These were published by G Riccordi. Printed
as separate parts are Horns V and VI which are the transposed Flicorni Tenore B
flat original parts. Also printed as a cue line in Hornas I t
A lister was asking about obtaining early copies of "Woodwind World" I located
my copies of the five issues from 1959 and four of the five issues from 1960.
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The "Ill Wind" To Mozart Third Horn Concerto - last movement is the only music
related parody I know of by them. I believe that they made three LP recordings.
All of them very funny. Good Baritone singer and good pianist. Regards.
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I believe the work is the Concerto for 4 Horns and orchestra by Heinrich
Hubler. Music available from KaWe (which was acquired by and available from
Hans Pizka). I believe he has for sale versions for horns and piano, and for
horns and orchestra. Hubler, by the way was a valve horn player and re
Alas, the Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition does not list the piece. I
suspect that it might be a movement of a larger work or from a collection of
pieces. But I do not know what it might be. There is a similar piece called
Happy Song by Siennicke, published by Ludwig, for horn and keyboard/p
I am not sure which partita you are interested since I am not familiar with
all of the BWV listings. I presume that 825 are the solo violin partitas.
Most familiar is #6 in E major which I believe is published in an edition
for solo horn. #1 in g minor I am not sure. As a last resort, obtain th
Strauss wrote the horns 5 thru 8 to reinforce passages in two places 1. in
the "Inquisition" scene, where the horns reinforce the string parts, and 2
at the final several bars of the piece. When our orchestra was lucky enough
to have the extra four parts played, we had then also serve as assist
Duo Concertante, Opus 10 (probably 1840-1950) by Otto Bach. Completely
unknown. I found a published copy in the New York Library and have
resurrected it and published it in a new edition. 12 minutes, range from
pedal G to high C. Very much in the style of Schumann. Contact me at
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Of interest on Sousa score. The University of Michigan Music Library has a
photographic copy of Sousa's original draft of "The Stars and Stripes"
march. It is for band but with parts for violins (2) violas, celli and bass
written in the bottom five staves of the score. It is in D major. The horn
My horn, a Paxman model GT, is a CBA+ single horn with an F extension valve.
Generally I play it in C all the time. Interestingly it makes the alternate
fingerings for pitches below C (second space in the bass clef) more in tune
than the Sansone fingerings for the B flat horn for the same pitche
Alas, Yes. The original "Auf dem Strom" calls for horn in E. However there
are versions with the work transcribed down a half step to E Flat, and down
a whole step to the key of D. And I have heard of an arrangement in the Key
of C, to accomodate a low voice. Thus I would not be surprised if a
The bore of modern horns is about 12 mm. Examples of 19th century hand horns
have had bores of 10 mm and even 9mm. When you play one of these you are
surprised how flexible they are especially in the lower register. Of course
the effect is diminished if played using a modern mouthpiece having a
I tend to aggree. The scoring indicates that Beethoven inted the note F# to
be lipped down from the G above it. On narrow bore natural horns in use in
Beethoven's time the efferct was easy to produce without any diminishment of
tone. Regards.
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Thanks Walter Lewis. I still play the Paxman GT. It is a great machine and easy
blowing which makes it good for pit work. I have played "Fiddler" many times
including with the original old hand written copied part, and with the newer
printed part. But even the new part needed lots of editing, es
I have found playing in the pit is fun and builds endurance. I am in the middle
of a 30 show run of "Oliver" at our local theater group in Gainesville,
Florida. The part is challanging because only a small ensemble is playing and I
have to play the horn 1 or 2 part and also play parts of Trombon
Alas. The Dalley Horn Catalogue - 2006 Edition on CD does not list any horn
quartets by Japanese composers, or horn quartets on Japanese folk melodies. The
only thing that comes to mind would be a quartet arrangement of music from
"Madam Butterfly". But again I am not aware of any published quar
We noticed the jacket photo of Alexander McCall Smith with a Tuba, even though
he actually playes bassoon. Smith's books, by the way are excellent reading.
His series of books about "The No. 1 Ladies Dectective Agency, (in Botswana)
has a "rhythm" to the text that is symbolic of the native langu
Available from Alfred Lengnick(sp?), London. through Mills music, New York.
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.My guess id John Graas. Regards.
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Interestingly Yamaha makes brass instruments, grand pianos, and 200,000 ton
petrolium carrying ships, and skis.
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I was taught to take advantage of the alternate fingering possibilities of both
the F and B flat sides of the standard double horn. And depending how you tune
the 3rd valve slides of both horns can have a lot of influence on which
fingering to use. I personally tune the third valve slide of the
he third and fourth parts in the Requiem are for horns in C, B flat, A and G
Basso. Transpose down. Regards.
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Perhaps someone will remember. There was a black and white western, produced
probably in late 40s or early 50s. The instrumentation for the entire film was
a concertina stopped accordion and three horns. Can anyone recall the film
title? Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The Dalley Horn Catalogue lists Concerto as being published by Ticherage Press,
Framfeld, England. Triton, for Horn and piano also published by the same.
Suspect the publisher is the Gipps estate. Regards.
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