Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-03-03 Thread William Gross
] Re: Mozart Concerto #3 Hi Everyone, I have read Han's response, and want to tell a tale of when I had to play Mozart 3 for a jury in my first year of college. What Hans says about playing and writing a Cadenza kind of fits, so I will be telling a tale on my inexperience. My horn prof told

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-03-03 Thread William Gross
, March 03, 2008 4:15 PM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3 Hans, Were the professionals you mention below, horn players or musicologist? On 2/2/08, hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Walt, it was possible to make some chromatic trill scal, but it depends

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-03-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The discant technique (higher than high written high c) was lost completely after the invention of the valves as valves allowed all half steps available on natural instruments (non valve instruments) in the highest stratospheres. Nobody could ever imagine playing up to written high g, as their

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-03-03 Thread William Gross
Thank you. On 3/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discant technique (higher than high written high c) was lost completely after the invention of the valves as valves allowed all half steps available on natural instruments (non valve instruments) in the highest

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread hans
Hello Howard, good advice but . There are too many young players out who write their own cadenzas which have nothing to do with Mozarts text except a few quoted notes, but a lot of their own stuff, to show off, but kicking out themselves of any audition. So I recommend to rely upon the

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread Walter Lewis
Hi Everyone, I have read Han's response, and want to tell a tale of when I had to play Mozart 3 for a jury in my first year of college. What Hans says about playing and writing a Cadenza kind of fits, so I will be telling a tale on my inexperience. My horn prof told me to write a cadenza,

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread hans
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Lewis Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:09 PM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3 Hi Everyone, I have read Han's response, and want to tell a tale of when I had to play Mozart 3 for a jury in my

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread Steve Haflich
From: Walter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I performed it, the Trombone professor nastily remarked that there would NOT be a chromatic scale, due to the fact that natural brass instruments had no valves to play chromatic scales. Why would a Trombone prof be surprised that a

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread hans
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Haflich Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 5:19 PM To: The Horn List; Walter Lewis Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3 From: Walter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I performed it, the Trombone professor nastily remarked

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-02-02 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 6:58 PM +0100 2/2/08, hans wrote: But the trombone could alter the pitch by ist slide therefore play all semitones, long before the horn appeared in the arena of music. Nowdays the horn is a musical instrument. Carlberg -- Carlberg Jones Skype - carlbergbmug Cornista - Orquesta