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Category: Music
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The Art of Noticing
An Experiment in Musical Mindfulness You know that feeling when you’ve spent weeks with a piece of music, and suddenly you start hearing all these little details you missed before? The way a particular harmony shifts, or how two instruments…
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Contemporary Trombone Excerpts – Ayres, In the Alps
No. 42 (In the Alps), Richard Ayres Melodrama for soprano and chamber orchestra (2008) No. 42 (In The Alps) by Richard Ayres is an orchestral trombonist’s dream: part Strauss, part Rossini, part Mahler, mostly hilarious. Here’s how the composer Richard…
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Contemporary Trombone Excerpts – Haas, Remix
Trombonists (and “ensembly-minded” musicians in general) spend a lot of time thinking about excerpts, passages of music from repertoire. We naturally single out these snippets as places we need to dedicate extra practice time. An excerpt might be an exposed…