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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @don Thanks, Don!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One Pratten - Elfins Revels Apr 9 Here is my second recording of this piece, this time without me giving Pratten's directions for the different sections. The short tremolo part,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Steve Price What a great discovery, Steve! I've never heard of her. Thanks for the score. Can I ask where you found it, and were there any other scores by her?…
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Re: Promotion question for well-rounded musician @Trevor Bumgarner I too watched from my laptop with Google Chrome. I have not watched again, to see if the issue repeated. The problem only occurred for part of the video.…
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Re: Promotion question for well-rounded musician @Martha Kreipke @Trevor Bumgarner I had a similar problem watching this video. I was watching the first one on Plany. I don't know if it occurs in the other ones.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @David Krupka I only listened to a few bits, but that stuff is pretty out there. Like prog rock on steroids. Do you think either of them were inspired by Pratten?
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Re: Taking it Slow: Week 3 Progress on Ponce's Prelude in E Major Excellent! What a great idea to track the first 1000 days. Are you trying to make it 1000 consecutive days?
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @David Krupka I have no idea of your education level, David, but I am going to start calling you Dr. Krupka! Even if you do not have the degree, I will bestow an honorary doctorate upon you.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @David Krupka Thank you, David. I do not know those prog-rock references you made. I had noticed the dedication, but I did not know anything about Giulia being a guitarist.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @don Aha, very nice! I don't like my sister enough to do something that nice. (Just kidding, my sister is great. )
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Steve Price Very cool little study! It has a calm intensity to it.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @don So beautiful! What a great discovery. Do you know the background of the song? Who is Maria?
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary @don @Steve Price Thanks, guys. It is a very interesting concept. Like I said, I am not sure what Pratten's intention was in giving us this little storyline.…
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Re: What are you working on? @Jack Stewart This is next-level good, Jack! I can hear that you are listening to other musicians, the way you really capture the baroque aesthetic. It is bursting with such a sense of joy.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One Pratten - Elfins Revels I found this piece on IMSLP and it intrigued me. The music seems to be telling a little story about gnomes and fairies. On the score,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Bart Versteeg A beautiful piece, Bart! I do love her music, so I am glad you will be working on it. Thanks for joining in!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Steve Price I love this, Steve! Glad you're joining in. I just downloaded these etudes for myself.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @don This is so beautiful, Don! In fact, it's so beautiful that you bought it twice. I love it when some bit of music captivates us so much that we cannot stop playing it over and over.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @Marc Adler I say yes! Trust me, there are no challenge police here to make sure our choices qualify. If anyone has music you want to play, by all means, play it.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One @don You're right, it is shaky. Not sure why, it was my usual set up. Maybe it was my intense vibrato!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week One Pratten - Forgotten I will get things started with this increasingly well-known piece. It is one of the few works by a woman composer for which we have a lesson here at TB.…
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The Women Composers Challenge Week One
Welcome to our latest community-driven challenge! In this challenge, you are invited to work on music by women composers. Whether it be a historical composer like Catharina Josepha Pratten,…
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Re: Let's Vote for our Next Challenge I guess that brings an end to the voting, so I will now post our new community-driven challenge. Thank you all for sharing your vote. Here is a link to week one of the Women Composers Challenge:…
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Re: What are you working on? @joosje Thank you, Joosje, for the kind words and for the suggestion about vibrato. I will look for places to add some.
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Re: What are you working on? Mertz Op 1 I thought I would try this again before the new challenge begins. This is unedited, and with no reverb.
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