Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

phew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j994kliEDE&feature=related

Vladislav Zolotarev

Well done, mercs. As I capriciously said... on a whim...

Camille Saint-Saëns' Rondo Capriccioso in A minor for violin and orchestra.
Vladislav Zolotarev's Rondo Capriccioso for accordion(s) (hence the "according to." I try... )
Hugo Wolf's Rondo Capriccioso in Bb, Op.15,for piano.

Let's have an overnight Stunner!

[Flay]

By the way, whatever happened to our friend Ron Dough from the old BBC R3 MBs? Has anyone heard from him since those heady days of over 2 years ago. He was very knowledgeable, a true gent.

[mercia]

Let's have an overnight Stunner!

can it wait until tomorrow ?
I won't be around now to reply

alternatively someone else might oblige

[Flay]

I can wait. Thanks for the company this evening. The Mrs has gone to see JC Superstar at the Sheffield Arena tonight. I was supposed to have been taking her but fortunately the daughter has gone instead. <phew> A narrow escape!

[Nick Armstrong]

Vladislav Zolotarev's Rondo Capriccioso for accordion(s) (hence the "according to." I try... )

Very trying....!!!

[mercia]

slightly in shock having managed to sleep well beyond 3am for the first time in at least 5 years [aren't you glad you know that ?]



S to connect

Mahler 4th symphony, second movement
Rite of Spring, final chord
Bach 5th cello suite

[mercia]

whatever happened to our friend Ron Dough from the old BBC R3 MBs?

sorry, can't help with that
I was only on the old boards for a day before being excommunicated

[antongould]

sorry, can't help with that
I was only on the old boards for a day before being excommunicated

Surely not

[Flay]

slightly in shock having managed to sleep well beyond 3am for the first time in at least 5 years [aren't you glad you know that ?]

S to connect

Mahler 4th symphony, second movement
Rite of Spring, final chord
Bach 5th cello suite

Perhaps when you waken you should not be thinking of AA - it's enough to give anyone insomnia!

Sorry I can't compete this morning: busy. I'll leave the goal open for someone else to score

[Nick Armstrong]

I was only on the old boards for a day before being excommunicated

Good heavens, mercia! What happened? What did you say?!

slightly in shock having managed to sleep well beyond 3am for the first time in at least 5 years [aren't you glad you know that ?]

S to connect

Mahler 4th symphony, second movement
Rite of Spring, final chord
Bach 5th cello suite

Glad to hear about your good night's sleep!

Fascinating question, mercs, from which I've learnt something. The Mahler reference made me think of the way the leader has to have a second, differently-tuned violin available for use in that movement - which led me to discover that there's a word for that:

Scordatura

And I learnt of the other examples of this technique, of which I had no idea - the cellos have to retune a string to make it more resonant in the final chord of 'Rite of Spring' (would anyone really notice the difference?! ) and the Bach suite is played with a string tuned down to permit some of the chords to be played more easily.

Lots of other examples too - sections of 'Heldenleben' and 'Don Quixote' by Strauss, Schumann's Piano Quartet, Ravel's 'Ma Mère L'Oye" - generally to alter the colour of the instrument in question.

Fascinating

[mercia]

The Mahler reference made me think of the way the leader has to have a second, differently-tuned violin available for use in that movement

a-ha! I didn't know that - perhaps something one would only appreciate when attending a performance.

Scordatura it is.

Thing is, if one is so used to putting one's fingers down in a certain place to get a certain note, is it not terribly disconcerting to then have to put them down in a different place - or does the composer trick you into putting them in the right/wrong place by what is printed on the page ?

............. if you see what I mean


anyway, looking forward to a taxing T

[Nick Armstrong]

a-ha! I didn't know that - perhaps something one would only appreciate when attending a performance.

Scordatura it is.

Thing is, if one is so used to putting one's fingers down in a certain place to get a certain note, is it not terribly disconcerting to then have to put them down in a different place - or does the composer trick you into putting them in the right/wrong place by what is printed on the page ?

............. if you see what I mean


anyway, looking forward to a taxing T

I do see what you mean - but the ability of professional musicians to transpose etc never ceases to amaze me. Like an accompanist who has to be able to transpose what he's reading up or down to suit the singer...

Yes, I recall a couple of live Mahler 4s where the leader had a spare chair in front of him with the 'alternative' violin sitting on it, waiting to be used...

Time for T... so, this T is involved with geometrical, autumnal and pluvious horticulture...

[mercia]

still on the subject of transposing, if I have my facts correct, as a trombonist you are playing a transposing instrument - you see and play a C but we hear a B flat

and are you not playing from several clefs, bass, tenor, alto ?

can't quite get my head round that


there again, as a pianist I play from two clefs simultaneously, so I guess it is something that becomes automatic

[Nick Armstrong]

still on the subject of transposing, if I have my facts correct, as a trombonist you are playing a transposing instrument - you see and play a C but we hear a B flat

and are you not playing from several clefs, bass, tenor, alto ?

there again, as a pianist I play from two clefs simultaneously, so I guess it is something that becomes automatic

Yes to the latter.. But as regards the trombone, I am so very amateur (and did most of my early playing in a concert band) that the bass clef is really all I can read. In my forays into orchestral music, which is normally in the tenor clef, I've had to copy out the part laboriously into the bass clef...

[mercia]

Time for T... so, this T is involved with geometrical, autumnal and pluvious horticulture...

jardin sous la pluie - Tebussy