What's on Your Music Stand?

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Permalink Reply by Dave Light on June 17, 2009 at 7:49am

Quite a bit, Greg. To begin with, I've got the Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada) Violin Technique book (I'm working at around Level 3 right now), the Wolfhart Studies in First Position book ( I'm working on the first third or so), the Flesch Scale System (just started on the G scales and arpeggios), plus various melodies I put together transcriptions for (I have several binders of these, mostly hand-written). The main "tune" study right now is a blues etude I wrote (inspired by Jeremy, actually) in Ab, with key shifts into C and Eb. I'm working it up for a video I hope to upload to the Fiddle World site in a few days.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Cahill on June 17, 2009 at 10:32am

Sounds like you're a busy guy.

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Permalink Reply by Roberta Goldman on June 18, 2009 at 1:40pm

In preparation for going to the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, Ive been practicing Prokofiev Quartet #2. Then switching to viola of one day I've been looking at the Dvorak Sextet. And one day my pre-forme quartet will add a clarinetist. We'll be coached on the Bernard Herrmann Clarinet Quintet.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Cahill on June 18, 2009 at 1:57pm

How do you like the Prokofiev Quartet #2? Any tips?

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Permalink Reply by Fiddle World on June 19, 2009 at 11:58am

A tune I wrote last week called "Women At My Door"

Attached is a Finale Notation copy of it

Attachments:

• .mus, 29 KB

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Permalink Reply by Adam on June 19, 2009 at 12:00pm

My wife and I recently bought a house in South Hadley, MA. During the move, I lost my gig book. I'm having to retrace and rebuild it. A laborious process! There were lots of notes and tune copies - hand written - that are irreplaceable.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Cahill on June 19, 2009 at 1:57pm

My sympathies, no small task.

Adam said:

My wife and I recently bought a house in South Hadley, MA. During the move, I lost my gig book. I'm having to retrace and rebuild it. A laborious process! There were lots of notes and tune copies - hand written - that are irreplaceable.

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Permalink Reply by Ann Marie Cordial on July 21, 2009 at 1:33pm

Ok, let's see....for violin, I'm doing Book II of Sevcik, Book II Hans Sitt, and the first movement in Vivaldi - Four Seasons. For viola, Book I Sevcik, Orchestral Exerpts, Elegie (Glasunov) and Elegy (Gabriel Faure).

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Permalink Reply by Henry Butcher on August 11, 2009 at 3:05am

On my stand at the moment is the Bach S&P,s. I have memorized the G minor sonata and I'm working on the G minor presto in which I still have memory slips, thats why the book is there, if I can't recall the notes so I take a quick peek and away I go. I haven't rememered the notes in the second part of the partita no. 2 and D minor gigue yet, so I better get cracking on those.
Also, I have 2 folders of gypsy tunes including the Brahms Hungarian Dances for violin, of course No.5 is the one I've memorized, but I play it in G minor, not E minor as in the book. Some tunes are my own transcriptions and the others are selected tunes from Mel Bay Gypsy Violin By Mary Ann Harbor.
I don't think there is enough time left to memorize all that but I sure will have a decent repertoir when I go busking....:))

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Permalink Reply by Greg Cahill on August 11, 2009 at 11:27am

Out of curiousity:

What are your thoughts on the Bach S&Ps?

What are the challenges you've encountered?

What is it about them that has given you insight as a player?

Why would you recommend them to others?

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Permalink Reply by Tippi on August 11, 2009 at 11:54am

Hi Greg, How are you?
My music stand is loaded with books, if it wasn't for the cabinet it is standing against, everything would fall down. My favorite on my music stand right now is Debussy sonata for cello and piano. I'm not advanced enough to play this, but the first part is doable. Then there is this fantastic, but very, very sad Chant elegiac by Florent Schmitt. Halfway there is a very difficult sentence that starts with a high g sharp. I just love to stretch and bend over my cello to find this note! Then Schumann, Fantasiestucke, the first piece. It's very nice with lots of major seconds. It's fun to play the same notes in a different rythm. And of course study and technique books, but I have to confess that since my teacher is on his holiday, I'm just fooling around ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Henry Butcher on August 12, 2009 at 3:33am

I enjoy Baroque music so I would like to play any music written in this era for solo violin, if only I had the sheet music.
The first challenge of course was to acquire the technique to play them, and now I have begun to memorize them.
As well as playing this music from memory it is important to me to study and understand the melodic and harmonic structures.

Greg Cahill said:

Out of curiousity:

What are your thoughts on the Bach S&Ps?

What are the challenges you've encountered?

What is it about them that has given you insight as a player?

Why would you recommend them to others?

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