Some beautiful, lyric works that have some great horn parts are Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry; Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from Lohengrin (I forget the arranger, but I think it's in the old Boosey Military band collection) and Suite Francaise - Milhaud - Alsace Lorraine movement, if I remember correctly.
Kjellrun Quoting Warren Van Camp <[email protected]>: > A very beautiful, soaring and moderately easy piece that seems like > it might fit your needs would be the middle movement, "The Signal > Tree", from Nikola Resanovic's Horn Sonata. I've enjoyed using it > that way in the past. > > http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/The_Signal_Tree.mp3. > > If not, at least it might give you some ideas. > > Warren. > > > At 10:00 AM 1/13/2011, [email protected] wrote: > > >Message: 11 > >Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:35:42 -0600 > >From: Molly White <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Graduation. > >To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > >Message-ID: > > <[email protected]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > >And yet Kopprasch is in NO WAY entertaining for your audience! Oh dear > >sorry. Did I shout? My suggestion is movie music! Field of Dreams, Robin > >Hood (Kostner), the most recent Star Trek. Avatar. Batman (any of them). > ET. > >Wow I could go on for days. Soaring (not necessarily "high") melodic themes > >and heroic fanfares. That is our instrument at its best. Guildhall soloists > >Time and Space for 2 Horns and piano FANTASTIC! I will mail you my CD if > you > >can't otherwise put your hands on a copy. > > > >On Jan 12, 2011 1:11 AM, "Richard V. West" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >John: > > > >My only suggestions are these: > > > >Write a piece that suits the horn, not a guitar, not a saxophone, not a > >trumpet. > > > >Write something you would want to hear yourself. > > > >Vary the mood. For example, write a slow, lyrical song-like section and > then > >contrast it with a > >jazzy section that closes the piece. > > > >Since you want to compose the piece yourself, write to your strengths. If > >you have a great high > >register or a super low register, show it off. If not, concentrate on the > >middle register. Can > >you double tongue or have a great legato style? If so, include some > passages > >for that. > > > >Above all, listen to as much music for horn and piano as possible, not to > >copy, but to learn > >what works and figure out why it does. > > > >Good luck, > > > >Richard in Seattle > > > > > >On 1/11/2011 8:34 PM, John Stacy wrote: > > > In just over 4 months, I'm going to be graduating high sc... > > > unsubscribe or set options at > >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hornfella%40comcast.net > > > > > > > > > ----- > > > No virus found in this message. > > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > > Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3374 - Release Date: 01/11/11 > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hestekin%40mun.ca > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
