1. Friends and Relations: The Sackbut
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... produce bespoke sackbuts and mouthpieces. They attempt to recreate every feature of the original they copy, down to the composition of the metal and the entirely collapsible construction: the repr...

2. Copyright Information
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... the following information and contact the publisher for more information. Copyright All text, sounds, pictures and other materials are the copyright of ...

3. Legal Disclaimer
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...ble law in your jurisdiction(s), you are not authorised to view or use our website. 7. Copyright and monitoring The contents of our website are protected by international copyr...

4. God's Trombones
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...tman, conductor of the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, dated 28 March 1997, enclosing a photocopy of a printed arrangement of the missing Equale. This version is entitled 'Trauerklänge...

5. Sheila Tracy talks to Dick Nash
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...ur in New York, who was a great technician and he took that plastic mouthpiece and did an exact copy and that's the one I'm using now for the ballads. I use a 6AL for the 36G and the 4...

6. A Lament for Sam Hughes
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...rsion of an article which appeared in edition No.87 of Planet, The Welsh Internationalist. To obtain a copy of Planet including the full article apply to Planet, PO Box 44, Aberystwyth, Dyfedd, Wal...

7. Fall and Rise of the Alto Trombone: 1830-2000
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...mbones one and two in either alto or tenor clef persisted well into the 20th century (e.g. Elgar), and copyists were also writing parts in alto, tenor and bass clef to a varying degree. Right up to...

8. Chapter 1: From Beethoven to Schumann
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...an feel wrong to the trombone section. While some of these inconsistencies may be attributed to a copyist's error – certainly this could be the case for bar 12, for the staccato marking ...

9. The Sackbut Rebut
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...adapt them again. I caught Richard Viano in New Mexico, far away from his library and his copy of Foreign Composers in France. The "trombone symphony" sounded very i...

10. Are we doing Dvořák wrong?
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...as recently edited a new piano reduction of Smita's Concertino (available from Edition BIM) based on a copy that is housed in the library of the Conservatoire. The original manuscript is presumably ...

11. Mozart's Requiem
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...nt versions, a terrible reprint of the 1913 version made in 1990, and a very nice edition of 1990. The copy I have is the 1913 edition; in fact I have the copy that was owned by Alfred Schnerich, w...

12. Coda: The Orchestral Alto Trombone in the Twentieth Century
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...rg: Drei Stücke, Op. 6, Neufassung von 1929, Universal Edition, Vienna, 1954. Claudia Patsch, Copyright Editor, Universal Edition (Vienna), personal interview 20.11.96. Alban Berg, Wozz...

13. Chapter 2: The Ascent of the Tenor Trombone
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...Der tag erscheint' WWV 68B 1843 manuscript lost (copyist's score: Alto, Tenore, Basso) Das Liebs...

14. Timber and the Spanish Ladies
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...etual lack of rehearsal time. Nine hours rehearsal for six concerts a week was quite normal. This photocopy gives a poor impression of the actual page, which also has pen and pencil markings, but i...

15. Chapter 4: Brahms
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...andexamplare and to place little value on readings in the other primary sources – autographs, copyists' manuscripts and other contemporaneous editions. Studies in textual criticism underta...

16. Revert to Eggert
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...he trombones are there." I was able to validate this statement on July 17, 2000 when I received a copy of the score sent by Dr. van Boer, including a reproduction of the first page of the Egge...

17. Bibliography
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...y H. E. Apostel, Universal Edition, Vienna, 1955. – Altenberg Lieder, op. 4,Universal Edition, © 1953, Vienna. Berlioz, Hector, Roméo etJuliette in D. Kern Holoman ...

18. New York, New York
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... else I had (or have) heard in these regards. A genius. I wanted to play as purely as he did, without copying his licks ... still do. At 18, 1 had more or less decided to try to make a career...

19. Boléro Unravelled
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...that if things had been different, it might have been higher still! No, that isn't a copying error, but a taste of what might have been if a composer hadn't made friends with a tro...

20. Creating Problems
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... Naturally, with the absence of an autograph score, second best must be the scores prepared by Haydn's copyists. These often bear the composer's own notations. Of these, four survive, of which three...

21. Tip From The Top - Eric Crees
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... Ensemble and upon graduating from the University of Surrey, where he won the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society's Joyce Dixey Award for composition, he joined the London...

22. Chapter 3: Bruckner
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...of the first trombone. Although in the autograph score the first trombone is written in alto clef, the copyist Schimatschek15 has transposed the part to bass clef, as seen in Ex. 3.8.  Moreover...

23. Mix 'N' Match
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...d onto the new thing, and that was the emergence of the present school. It hasn't been a direct copy of the American style of playing; simply that their sound sparked it off. People have expe...

24. Coventry BTS trombone day
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Saturday 29 May 2010  A day for trombone players of all ages, with particular emphasis on young trombonists. Featuring Mark Nightingale in a lunchtime jazz session.  Programme 10.

25. A European Tour Odyssey: Part 4
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...ble. Also in this house was a lock of Beethoven's hair (brownish with quite a bit of grey) and a copy of his death mask - death did not come to him easily, sallow, sunken cheeks, downturned mo...

26. Music Examples
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... score; last page Ex. C.2 Berg, Drei Orchesterstücke, edited, pre-publication proof copy of the 1929 published version; same passage as Ex. C.1 Ex. C.3 Berg, Drei Orchesterst&u...

27. First Song
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... the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and a professor at the aforementioned College. We must rush a copy Ben's latest CD, First Song, to Gary ASAP, or he could order it from www.basstrombone.n...

28. A European Tour Odyssey: Part 7
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...writing via e-mail to Chris Palmer, daughter of Connie Palmer who owns "George," the modern copy of the mighty 16 foot "Anaconda" serpent that is in a museum in Edinburgh. Chris...

29. Scores to download
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...te solo part and piano reduction for Rimsky Korsakov's Trombone Concerto. As many people realise, copyright laws allow composers and publishers to profit from their works for only a limited per...

30. BTS Wessex Region Trombone Day
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The Wessex Region trombone day 2010 will be on 19 September 2010 and is being arranged in association with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The venue is a spacious concert hall at Lytchett Minste