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[Tarazet]

I am exhausted, after an hour's battle with the Black Dragon whilst fighting a cold, but I have emerged victorious. Why victorious? Because I played Liszt's Un Sospiro, and I managed to work in that Final Fantasy bit I posted here a couple of weeks ago. :lol I could actually hear my teacher cracking up. But most of the people who were listening couldn't tell I was improvising, even though many of them had heard me play the piece before. Weird.

There were audio and video recordings taken of the whole recital, I'll try to get them online in a few days...

 

[NLB2]

Can't wait to hear it. And they couldn't tell you were improvising because the majority of people don't actually listen to music.

 

[Tarazet]

Can't wait to hear it. And they couldn't tell you were improvising because the majority of people don't actually listen to music.

These were the other piano majors I know, though. They didn't have that excuse. I even invited someone I know for a fact is into video games, and he didn't catch it, but both of the piano faculty did...

 

[NLB2]

These were the other piano majors I know, though. They didn't have that excuse. I even invited someone I know for a fact is into video games, and he didn't catch it, but both of the piano faculty did...

Yeah man, that's the reason they're making money teaching and the piano majors are spending money learning. As a trombonist I know how ridiculously important a well trained ear is. Music can be incredibly difficult for this reason. My quartet was working on a transcription of Bach's Contrapunctus 14 today. If anyone of us stops listening to oursleves and the other three members of the quartet for a beat, the music during the duration of that beat suffers tremendously. It was a really strange thing to hear when reviewing the recordings.

 

[Tarazet]

Yeah man, that's the reason they're making money teaching and the piano majors are spending money learning. As a trombonist I know how ridiculously important a well trained ear is. Music can be incredibly difficult for this reason. My quartet was working on a transcription of Bach's Contrapunctus 14 today. If anyone of us stops listening to oursleves and the other three members of the quartet for a beat, the music during the duration of that beat suffers tremendously. It was a really strange thing to hear when reviewing the recordings.

A transcription of Contrapunctus 14 from Art of the Fugue transcribed for four trombones??? Now I've heard everything... do you have a full, completed version, or does it stop in mid-sentence (because that's when Bach died, he left it incomplete)?

 

[NLB2]

A transcription of Contrapunctus 14 from Art of the Fugue transcribed for four trombones??? Now I've heard everything... do you have a full, completed version, or does it stop in mid-sentence (because that's when Bach died, he left it incomplete)?

Are you serious? That's awesome. I didn't know it was incomplete (if you couldn't tell from this response, our transcription is completed - I get to play a really cool 4-3 suspension on a Picardy third ). But man, trombone transcriptions of baroque music sounds absolutely great - much better than the limited music written for trombone during the classical and romantic periods (with the exception of Mozart's concerto, Beethoven's quartet, and Bruckner's trio),

 

[Tarazet]

Are you serious? That's awesome. I didn't know it was incomplete (if you couldn't tell from this response, our transcription is completed - I get to play a really cool 4-3 suspension on a Picardy third ). But man, trombone transcriptions of baroque music sounds absolutely great - much better than the limited music written for trombone during the classical and romantic periods (with the exception of Mozart's concerto, Beethoven's quartet, and Bruckner's trio),

I can tell you when it happens, too: if there's a theme, in big old half-notes, that goes D A F D C#, then it's before that happens. As it is, it's a triple fugue; scholars are pretty sure he intended it to be a quadruple fugue, which is what a lot of realizations have made it into.

I think I'm even more amazed that the trombone even has that kind of range...

 

[NLB2]

I can tell you when it happens, too: if there's a theme, in big old half-notes, that goes D A F D C#, then it's before that happens. As it is, it's a triple fugue; scholars are pretty sure he intended it to be a quadruple fugue, which is what a lot of realizations have made it into.

I think I'm even more amazed that the trombone even has that kind of range...

Yeah, our version is a quadruple fugue. Its pretty nice to have a music encyclopedia on this board. Oh, and sometimes the soprano voice is played an octave lower in one of the lower voices and one of the lower voices is played an octave up in the soprano.

 

[fart]

less talking about things i don't understand more posting music i like