Hello all, I need help too. I was in a city last spring, arriving by air, but I do not remember, where it was. Nor do I have any idea, what a continent it was. I remember, the regular gangway to the plane was not the same as on my home airport. It did not match the door height of the plane, but it matched for other planes. Very confusing, indeed. Any help is welcome, so I can find out, where I had landed this past spring.
Well, stop joking now. If one cannot remember after three four months which piece he or she played, does not speak for the player. Was it an oratory by Mendelssohn ? - Well, not every piece is just a piece ! This is too simple. Mendelssohn & other contemporaries often used two differently pitched pair of horns, - natural horns - . The 2nd pair is pitched higher quite often, mainly in G or A. The 2n pair is for a "fourth" different than the 1st pair (ex.: first pair in E, 2nd pair in A = equally to F/Bb double horn). Why the 2nd pair higher ? The first pair (lower) has to play some "manipulated" pitches, while the 2nd & higher pair nearly avoids "manipulated" pitches & remains for the "open calls". So the 2nd pairs musical text remains quite simple, but delicate on modern double horns. A final question: is it really so difficult, remembering titles of certain music, if the title is written in a foreign language ? Or was it the "overwhelming impression" left by the conductor, which forced one to forget not only the conductors name, but also the title of the music ? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I apologize for double post this, but I really need help. What so knows? There may be someone here who can answer me that's not on the other list. I've hesitated to ask this question for a long time because I'm not sure I can find the words to adequately explain what I mean. Well, here goes: This past spring, I played a Mendelsohn piece. (Sorry, can't even remember which one, something for Easter.) I was on 3rd horn. The 1st and 2nd horn players were transposing to one horn key, but I was transposing to a completely different horn key, I think a fifth higher or lower than they were. Anyway, the tonic of their horn key corresponded with the tonic of the whole orchestra. So when the first & second horns played their written C, it was the tonic that matched what the whole orchestra played. But my tonic, my written C, was NOT the tonic of the rest of the orchestra. If I remember correctly my written C, was the dominate or the subdominate of the key the orchestra played. I wasn't very familiar with the piece, but before the rehearsal I wasn't really worried about it because it looked simple. I only played through it once or twice & showed up to the first rehearsal thinking I was prepared. I was shocked that I could hardly play 50% of the notes correctly. Nothing "felt" correct. In my mind, I wanted MY tonic written C to correspond with the tonic of the whole orchestra, but it didn't work that way. It was horribly confusing and I just couldn't play it correctly "on the fly," if you know what I mean. I had to go home & transpose it to horn in F to make it work. Am I making any sense here? Have any of you had a similar experience? Is there a strategy I can employ to avoid that sort of disaster again? Valerie Wells "The Balanced Embouchure" for French Horn wells123...@juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Click here for great quotes from top international movers! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsKdC5g7GHOsL2d8kftuBZeAfnR 5Rq1BAvBta773iWkZocDhhGUFKg/ _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka.de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
