Download or read book Chopin for Trumpeters written by Luis E. Loubriel and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the "vocal side" of Chopin's music by focusing on the melodic lines of his music. As such, this book provides practicing materials that will challenge brass players both, technically and artistically. Some of the benefits of playing Chopin's music as transcribed for brass include: 1) The exposure to melodically and harmonically complex music from the Romantic era; 2) The practice of intricate ornaments such as trills, turns, and ad libitum passages not usually found in brass etudes (with the exception of Theo Charlier's 36 Trascendental Etudes); 3) The interpretation of musical styles--such as the Nocturnes, Ballades, and Mazurkas--which are not common in any of the brass instruments' repertoire. Throughout this book, players will find transcriptions--modified by the author to fit the register and technique of brass players--of, among others, Chopin's Polish Songs, Op. 74; Eccoisases; Mazurkas; Waltzes; Etudes; and a Nocturne. In some cases, the author had to transpose pieces---for example, the Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. 17/1 was transposed a minor third lower to the key of G Major--to better fit the trumpet's register. The author also provides performance notes for each composition. These notes serve as a guide to Chopin's expressive intentions as well as giving technical guidance to the brass performer. The performer is also encouraged to listen to the artistic interpretation of other musicians--especially pianists but also other instrumentalists playing Chopin transcriptions--to gain further insights into each piece.
Download or read book At the Piano with Chopin written by Frédéric Chopin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent collection in Hinson's At the Piano Series. Contains many of his most popular Mazurkas, Preludes, Waltzes, Nocturnes--plus others! Includes informative biographical information and performance suggestions for each work.
Download or read book A Century of Progress written by Delaware and Hudson Company and published by Albany : J.B. Lyon Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on the company's presidents, centennial, founding, scope, locomotive aquisitions, and various other topics.
Download or read book The music of Chopin written by Frédéric Chopin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chopin s Piano In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music written by Paul Kildea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In November 1838, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognized as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism: his twenty-four Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, Juan Bauza, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left. Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. After Chopin, the unexpected hero of Chopin’s Piano is the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska, who rescued the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become one of the most influential artistic figures of the twentieth century. Paul Kildea shows how her story—a compelling account based for the first time on her private papers—resonates with Chopin’s, simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political history of mid-twentieth century Europe and the United States. After Landowska’s flight to America from Paris, which the Germans would occupy only days later, her possessions—including her rare music manuscripts and beloved keyboards—were seized by the Nazis. Only some of these belongings survived the war; those that did were recovered by the Allied armies’ Monuments Men and restituted to Landowska’s house in France. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated between generations.
Download or read book Chopin s Musical Style written by Gerald Abraham and published by London : Oxford U.P.. This book was released on 1939 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy which Chopin left to the world constitutes something unique in the literature of music--unique not only in its scope, but in its extraordinary variety and its range of colour and feeling. In the great corpus of his compositions for the piano (he wrote nothing of significance for any other medium) he expressed thoughts and feelings that had not previously found expression in music and on all he wrote he left the clear mark of his own personality. In this book Gerald Abraham has analysed the factors and circumstances which go to make up Chopin's musical style; he demonstrates clearly the past models on which Chopin built and traces the growth and development of his highly individual keyboard forms.
Download or read book Chasing Chopin written by Annik LaFarge and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern take on a classical icon: this original, entertaining, well-researched book uses the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still animates popular culture centuries later. The Frédéric Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language, an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher, a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution and exile. In Chasing Chopin she follows in his footsteps during the three years, 1837–1840, when he composed his iconic “Funeral March”—dum dum da dum—using its composition story to illuminate the key themes of his life: a deep attachment to his Polish homeland; his complex relationship with writer George Sand; their harrowing but consequential sojourn on Majorca; the rapidly developing technology of the piano, which enabled his unique tone and voice; social and political revolution in 1830s Paris; friendship with other artists, from the famous Eugène Delacroix to the lesser known, yet notorious in his time, Marquis de Custine. Each of these threads—musical, political, social, personal—is woven through the “Funeral March” in Chopin’s Opus 35 sonata, a melody so famous it’s known around the world even to people who know nothing about classical music. But it is not, as LaFarge discovered, the piece of music we think we know. As part of her research into Chopin’s world, then and now, LaFarge visited piano makers, monuments, churches, and archives; she talked to scholars, jazz musicians, video game makers, software developers, music teachers, theater directors, and of course dozens of pianists. The result is extraordinary: an engrossing, page-turning work of musical discovery and an artful portrayal of a man whose work and life continue to inspire artists and cultural innovators in astonishing ways. A companion website, WhyChopin, presents links to each piece of music mentioned in the book, organized by chapter in the order in which it appears, along with photos, resources, videos, and more.
Download or read book Eastern School Music Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Trumpet written by James Arthur Brownlow and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century English slide trumpet was the last trumpet with the traditional sound of the old classic trumpet. The instrument was essentially a natural trumpet to which had been added a movable slide with a return mechanism. It was England's standard orchestral trumpet, despite the dominance of natural and, ultimately, valved instruments elsewhere, and it remained in use by leading English players until the last years of the century. The slide trumpet's dominating role in nineteenth-century English orchestral playing has been well documented, but until now, the use of the instrument in solo and ensemble music has been given only superficial consideration. Art Brownlow's study is a new and thorough assessment of the slide trumpet. It is the first comprehensive examination of the orchestral, ensemble and solo literature written for this instrument. Other topics include the precursors of the nineteenth-century instrument, its initial development and subsequent modifications, its technique, and the slide trumpet's slow decline. Appendices include checklists of English trumpeters and slide trumpetmakers.
Download or read book Practical Studies for Cornet and Trumpet Bk 1 written by Robert Ward Getchell and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This First Book of Practical Studies is designed to develop chord consciousness and to provide additional experience in the fundamental rhythms, key signatures and articulations and to improve accuracy in reading through the use of interesting and melodic studies. It may be used either to supplement or to follow any beginning method book.
Download or read book A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection on Compact Discs for Libraries written by Kenyon C. Rosenberg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists classical and operatic recordings that are specifically available in the new (and desirable) compact disc format. Individual titles are graded for their appropriateness to specific types and sizes of libraries. The main portion covers some 160 composers whose works are important in constituting a nuclear library collection of "serious" music. There are over 1,200 titles included and individually numbered (and fully cross-referenced) and graded. For numerous works, two or more performances are cited in order to provide the librarian with greater choices; monophonic works are specifically indicated. Many of the works are annotated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Luck s In My Corner written by Todd Bryant Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck’s in My Corner is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era, Oran "Hot Lips’ Page. Page was the greatest of the Kansas City trumpeters, whose crackling, growling solos made him the go-to man during Count Basie’s earliest days as a bandleader. Page went on to be a featured trumpeter with Artie Shaw, a star of New York’s 52nd street, and a pioneer of the R & B scene of the 1950s. This book presents an in-depth chronology of Page’s career, with special attention paid to the development of his trumpet style. Luck’s in My Corner examines the life and music of a forgotten figure of the Swing Era and returns him to his rightful place as a leading light in the world of jazz. Todd Bryant Weeks has combined genealogical, musicological, discographical and historical research, resulting in a revealing and entertaining examination of a life that spanned major changes in American popular music. This book includes a new and complete discography by the author and dozens of unpublished photos.
Download or read book The Interlochen List of Recommended Materials for Instrumental Ensembles written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Meets West written by Edward H. Tarr and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The waning years of the Russian Empire witnessed the development of a rich tradition of trumpet playing. Noted trumpet scholar and performer Edward Tarr's latest book illuminates this tradition, which is little known in the West. Tarr's extensive research in hitherto inaccessible Russian archives has uncovered many documents that illuminate the careers of noted performers. These documents are reproduced here for the first time. A concise chronological summary of Russian political and musical developments provides an effective backdrop for this inventory of trumpeters. The author ably demonstrates how profoundly Russian trumpet-playing and pedagogy were influenced by emigrées, particularly from Germany (Wilhelm Wurm, Willy Brandt, Oskar Böhme), and how Russian-born trumpeters like Vladimir Drucker subsequently influenced the American musical scene. In his Lexicon of Trumpeters, both Russian and 'Foreign, ' Active in Russia, Tarr supplements his own research with information from valuable but obscure secondary sources in Russian. This lexicon carries the story into the late twentieth century, and includes modern legendary figures such as Timofey Dokshizer. Members of the International Trumpet Guild will receive a discount of 15% on purchases of this title.
Download or read book Back to Basics for Trumpeters written by Luis E. Loubriel and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is built around interviews that Luis E. Loubriel conducted with Vincent Cichowicz and his most successful disciples over thirteen years, woven together with Loubriel's own analysis, and organized according to the central themes of Cichowicz's methodology. Although Cichowicz developed no rigid, one-size-fits-all system--indeed, his special talent was for custom tailoring his teaching to the needs of each student--certain fundamentals tenets informed all of his teaching. This book memorializes those tenets through the words of the master himself and some of his exemplary proteges. As such, it represents a significant contribution to contemporary understandings of trumpet pedagogy, and brass pedagogy in general"--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Brass Singers written by Luis Loubriel and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essay on an Introduction to the Heroic and Musical Trumpeters and Kettledrummers Art written by Johann Ernst Altenburg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
