... Abm7 in the key of C is not so unusual. Try: C/G, Abm7, Db9, C^9. Sounds quite natural to me. Can't think where I would use it as passing chord tho' except...
... I can think of at least one, Laurence. When I use a Db7 going to C in the key of C (which is a very common, at least in jazz charts) I always spell the...
... But your experience should be able to tell you pretty closely how many hours you'll need to do a certain type of arrangement of a certain type of piece, so...
Laurence Payne wrote: [snip] ... [snip] And in most situations, the comfort level of the person playing the part should not be considered a very good reason to...
... There are, John. The Besson/Boosey patent for the compensating system expired a few years ago. I think Yamaha was first to jump on the bandwagon, and...
John Howell wrote: [snip]> Jacobs???). His tuba is Russian-made, he got it really ... [snip] I've seen quite a few of the St. Petersburg tubas and they are...
________________________________________ From: ContraReed@... As long as we're talking about tubas (and I'm amazed at how much I've learning from this...
... Because the Disney corporation owns copyrights and not patents. :-) If they owned patents as well, those would be extended by now. I realize this isn't...
... I'm not sure it's predominantly an orchestral instrument -- brass quintets, bands all have horn players and all advanced horn players seem to want at least...
... Which is why I was careful to say "If you consider it the 3rd of an Abm chord". Where it acts as a leading note, a melody part is clearer notated as B. A...
... I don't see why, Laurence. They've been doing a similar thing in classical harmony for centuries with the augmented 6th chord. The German version in the...
... Sure. But they weren't writing a chord symbol over it. My point was that once you've labelled a chord as Abm it creates a cognitive dissonance (I've been...
... And I had to look it up. ... I prefer to read and write notation according to whatever the key of the moment is, but then I'm an arranger, not a guitarist....
... In this case I would bet that the slurs are Beethoven's but the downbows and upbows are not. And it's an EXCELLENT bowing, which indicates BOTH the...
John Howell
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Nov 1, 2008 2:22 pm
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On the contrary, the comfort of the player (i.e., the readability of the music) is THE driving force being ALL notation choices made by a competent jazz...
Hi Laurence, ... Absolutely not. But notating a diatonic melody note in the key of C as Cb instead of B (regardless of how it is harmonized) would certainly ...
... Absolutely. The best "review" of anything I get to write is when the performing ensemble reads it straight down, the director says "That works", and they...
... From: Darcy James Argue <djargon@...> To: sibelius-list@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:15:56 AM Subject: Re: [sibelius-list]...
... Patents--at least in the 20th century and in the U.S.--have always had shorter lifetimes than copyrights. Something like 17 years for a patent (and MUCH...
John Howell
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Nov 1, 2008 8:18 pm
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... Sax intended the same dichotomy for his saxophone family, but his C and F instruments never caught on, perhaps because they were very slow to enter the...
John Howell
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Nov 1, 2008 8:29 pm
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... Sounds as if you're equating brass instruments in C with stringed instruments. I can't see why!! The correct answer is, E. The sound is different. John ...
John Howell
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... In any case, in the key of Gb major (and I assume we can agree that that's a legitimate key!) the 4th degree is Cb, not B natural. End of Story! When I...
John Howell
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... I don't know what planet you are on, John, but we've all been discussing the use of an Abm7 chord in the key of C. Maybe you should go back to the ...
We are playing a band arrangement of Orpheus in der Underwelt. A section in 2/4 time has measures that contain a pair of double-beamed half notes. Seems like...
... Synopsis: Beginning - Once Upon A Time Ending - They All Lived Happily Ever After In between is a lot of gratuitous sex and violence. The fight between the...
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