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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @Steve Price More great stuff, Steve! I'm surprised the studies are not more commonly played.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three Update on Presti Etudes (Apr 23)
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @Ron Thanks, Ron. And these are the easiest etudes in the set of six.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @Steve Price I should have figured out that it was in one those books by Kruisbrink that you have. I had heard of her brother, and once played a piece by him (called Solitude, I think?).…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @joosje Thanks, Joosje. I'm not sure #2 has a particular technical goal, but more musical goals. I have to say that there are many repertoire pieces called studies for which I do not see a clear…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @Steve Price You are a wise man. I have been practicing III, and it is not easy on the hand. I have been working on trying to play it with the absolute least tension possible.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @Steve Price That's a lovely little piece, Steve! I have never heard of her. Do you have this in a book? I can't find a score online.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three Ida Presti - Etudes II and III I love Ida Presti's music, but of her pieces for solo guitar (that I can find) these are the only two that are anywhere near my playing level.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @joosje For me, it has just been a matter of doing it a lot, and not fussing over my perceived "imperfections". My knowledge of technology and sound engineering is laughably low.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three @joosje Thank you, Joosje. Here is a video of Linnemann playing the piece. If you watch it in YT and read the description, she explains the title briefly - I guess both she and Satie collect(ed)…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three Linnemann - Quiet Waters and Satie's Umbrellas I thought I'd start the week off with a couple more nice pieces by Maria Linnemann. Enjoy!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two Other than adding comments to anything above, Week Two is now closed. Please head to Week Three.
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The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
Welcome to week three of our community-driven challenge on women composers! In week two, we heard some wonderful music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Emilie Mayer, Tatiana Stachak, Angela Mair,…
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Re: Welcome to tonebase! @Ian Welcome, Ian, glad to have you! That's awesome that you build guitars. I so wish I had that ability and gift. Do you sell them, or do you just build for fun and for yourself?…
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Re: Tarrega's arrangement of Schumann - Träumerei @don That is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Tarrega's arrangement of Schumann - Träumerei Here are two transcriptions, the first being Tarrega's. When I played it a couple years ago, I used Tarrega as my basis, but I altered it in several places.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two Pratten - Three Sketches Here is one last go at these three pieces.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @don How about you ask my wife and kids to do that. I'm sure they will be into it! Thanks for the kind words. I did mess around a bit with the color of the text,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. I actually did explain the origin of the text in the description of the video in YT.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two Pratten - Elfins Revels I have decided to take Pratten's words from her score and incorporate them into the video with text on the screen. Let me know what you think.
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Re: What are you working on? Mertz - Vaterlands-Blüthen Originelle Ungarischen Op 1 I know we have moved on to the Women Composers Challenge, but I have a finalized version of this opus that I was working on before that…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @Steve Price Excellent! It’s a pretty thick texture, but it definitely works on the guitar.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @don Totally new to me, both the composer and the piece. Great discovery, Don!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @Steve Price Thanks, Steve. I agree, her music is very emotive and fun to play.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Two @David Krupka Thanks, David. I did notice that technical note on the score and found it interesting. My fingers kind of did what she instructed anyways.…
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