On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Ray Horton wrote:
Regarding the falset notes, which you call Privileged
frequencies ... unstable ... and imply that A very high level of
expertise is needed for them: I teach them to junior high
students, so when they purchase a trombone with a valve they
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Ray Horton wrote:
Regarding the falset notes, which you call Privileged frequencies ...
unstable ... and imply that A very high level of expertise is
needed for them: I teach them to junior high students, so when they
purchase a
On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Ray Horton wrote:
The Eb down to C in question can be played in 4th through 7th
position. On modern instruments, played by players who do not
cultivate this series of notes, there is a noticeable timbre
difference, but on smaller bore instruments, the sound can
Andrew,
Regarding the falset notes, which you call Privileged frequencies ...
unstable ... and imply that A very high level of expertise is needed
for them: I teach them to junior high students, so when they purchase a
trombone with a valve they are already used to the range below the
On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
... the most common trombone section of the classical era was three Bb
tenors.
Both Mozart and Beethoven (and at least a few early Romantics)
routinely write the bass trombone down to C. No valveless tenor can
play this note. So much for
On 21-Jan-09, at 21-Jan-09 3:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
... the most common trombone section of the classical era was
three Bb tenors.
Both Mozart and Beethoven (and at least a few early Romantics)
routinely write the bass trombone
Can someone tell me where one of these great-octave C's for bass 'bone is
in something by Beethoven or Mozart? I recall an instance in the Brahms
1st symphony chorale, but not in the works of the other two.
ajr,
now waiting for the orginal three tenors to take their bow!
On 21-Jan-09, at
At 6:04 PM -0600 1/21/09, arabu...@cowtown.net wrote:
Can someone tell me where one of these great-octave C's for bass 'bone is
in something by Beethoven or Mozart? I recall an instance in the Brahms
1st symphony chorale, but not in the works of the other two.
Not in Beethoven's 5th. I just
Please see my other reply to David's post about how these notes CAN be
played on a valveless tenor. To expand:
The Eb down to C in question can be played in 4th through 7th position.
On modern instruments, played by players who do not cultivate this
series of notes, there is a noticeable
Andrew, you should read the recent research work of Howard Weiner and
Ken Shifrin. To oversimplify - the alto trombone was not as omnipresent
as we have been led to think. (Weiner, in particular, is quite adamant
on this.) Often, the alto trombone, even in the time of Mozart and
Beethoven,
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