RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Leutgeb

2008-05-07 Thread David B. Thompson
Peter Hirsch wrote: Try getting a copy of Jasper Rees' I found my horn. This book has more information on Leutgeb, Punto and other historical horn players than just about any other source, though the book is not intended as a reference work, but rather, a personal memoir. It may not be easy to

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Leutgeb

2008-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter, his name was not Ignaz Leutgeb. Ignaz was just a nickname. ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Concerto #3

2008-03-03 Thread William Gross
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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

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Sym. 29 in A

2007-08-28 Thread hans
Hello Bill, all said perfectly, but . Concert c# on 2nd valve Bb-horn will be flat definitely if the 2nd slide is at the right position for the concert E (top), means if the A-horn is tuned perfectly. So why not leaving the 3rd Bb-slide on ist place use it together with 2nd for the concert

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Sym. 29 in A and DVDs

2007-08-28 Thread hans
: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Sym. 29 in A Hello Bill, all said perfectly, but . Concert c# on 2nd valve Bb-horn will be flat definitely if the 2nd slide is at the right position for the concert E (top), means if the A-horn is tuned perfectly. So why not leaving the 3rd Bb-slide on ist place use

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-26 Thread Reba McLaurin
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:30 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A Actually, my post

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-26 Thread hans
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:23 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A It was a freelance gig in a place where all of the freelance work goes to the orchestra. Our principal

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-26 Thread Reba McLaurin
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:23 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A It was a freelance gig in a place where all of the freelance work goes to the orchestra. Our principal

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-23 Thread Reba McLaurin
it is the last one, sorry ! == -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:33 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-23 Thread hans
Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:30 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A Actually, my post was not entirely accurate. I had just returned from a sabbatical when I got asked to play the gig by our personnel manager because everyone else

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-22 Thread Reba McLaurin
What if you don't have access to any type of high horn. An F or Bflat or descant or natural horn. I got asked to do it without one once. It was a nightmare because it was right after I had spent a year off the horn, but I did it anyway. I just wanted to play, and I really didn't have any

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-22 Thread hans
! == -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reba McLaurin Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:33 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A What if you don't have access to any type of high horn. An F or Bflat or descant

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Sinfonia no.29 in A

2007-08-20 Thread hans
Your problem is, that you are used to Bb fingering, while I prefer the F-fingering, so high F fingering is ZERO problem. On the Bb horn you miss the great opportunity to avoid finger-squeezing for the ##-tonalities, haha. If you like a bit stronger sound, use the Bb-high F but removing the

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Effect

2007-02-21 Thread Robert Dickow
Aren't we being a little hard on ol' John Williams. Amongst the déjà vu strains in his music, even some of those are quite brilliant (e.g. the Asteroid Belt sequence in Star Wars V, which is reminiscent of Bernard Herman's work for Hitchcock films), and other passages are very original and quite

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Effect

2007-02-21 Thread Pandolfi, Orlando
All I can say is, he's a better thief than I am. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Dickow Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:58 PM To: 'The Horn List' Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart Effect Aren't we being a little hard on ol

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart

2006-04-12 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry, sorry, Leslie, are you speaking of the Concerto no.3 K.447 ? If so, there is NO comment to Leitgeb in this concerto except in the third movement, where Mozart himself wrote Leigeb above the solopart twice. Yes, very young students should try concerto no.3 (better than the two movements in

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart

2006-04-12 Thread Jonathan West
I've learned this from my teachers: The older and more advanced you get, the harder Mozart is to play. Ain't that the case. I'm performing Mozart 4 with my local community orchestra in June, having thoroughly learned it during school years and college years. I'm finding that it is much

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart

2006-04-12 Thread Loren Mayhew
and something else, but not when he performed the 4th. Loren \@() [EMAIL PROTECTED] +011 (520) 403-6897 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan West Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:57 AM To: The Horn List Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mozart

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Cadenza

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Black
Dear Jaako, Thanks - Adam Black From: Jaakko Välimäki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Horn List horn@music.memphis.edu To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart Cadenza Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:02:02 -0700 (PDT) message: 3 date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:35:45 +0930 from: Adam

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart 12 Duets K.V. 487 - Transpositions?

2004-04-15 Thread Hans Pizka
Jack, you should read my first message again, when I asked you to abandon reading music in absolute pitch. If we (both) talk about music from different stand point of view regarding naming the notes, we cannot find any platform for us. I TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC AS WRITTEN NOTES, not transposed to

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart 12 Duets K.V. 487 - Transpositions?

2004-04-15 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Is the problem here not that Jack is talking in concert pitch, but that in his edition the duets are already transposed i.e. not written out in the key of C. I had such an edition and stuck it in the bin the day I bought an urtext edition. All the best, Lawrence þaes ofereode - þisses swa

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart 12 Duets K.V. 487 - Transpositions?

2004-04-15 Thread Hans Pizka
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: Mozart 12 Duets K.V. 487 - Transpositions? Is the problem here not that Jack is talking in concert pitch, but that in his edition the duets are already