Week 3: Music is Music! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the last week of the transcription challenge! This is the place for the Week 3 Submissions!
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Schumann's Traumerei (Jan 18 Final Submission)
I thought I'd record one last version of this piece that has been the focus of my practice during most of this challenge.
I also have changed my usual microphone placement on this video and the previous one above - let me know if they sound better than my other recordings.
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Eric Phillips beautiful. Now that recording sound is coming along. But it’s still your own playing that really does it! Great job again.
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joosje Thanks, Joosje. I feel very overwhelmed by the task of making a decent recording. What I really love is playing the guitar, and this piece has become a real joy to play.
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hello all I played La Paloma also (trans. Tárrega)
Vilio
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Vilio Celli nice one Vilio.
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joosje thanks it was only 12 takes lol
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From the unforgettable Charlie Chaplin,
"Smile"
(soundrack of the film "Modern Times") in the arrangement by Maestro N.Takeuchi-
ivan paolo Great! I didn't know this arrangement. I love when the melody goes to the bass. Good job!
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ivan paolo Nice playing. Good arrangement. Thank you for posting, Ivan!
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ivan paolo I love it, Ivan! It's another nice change of pace from the type of music we typically hear in this forum, and very welcome. The melody came through so beautifully.
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ivan paolo Excellent. Who knew that Charlie Chaplin was also a great composer!
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ivan paolo I love this piece, and the transcription is wonderful. You played it beautifully and with such expression. Bravo
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ivan paolo thanks for sharing and playing this Ivan. Have you changed something in your sound recording, you're sound is great!
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Blaise Laflamme
Yes, I applied with reaper to my zoom h4n recording's file, the normalization and limitation procedure shown by Martin in the last live on home recording and as far as you tell me, it works ...
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ivan paolo well... what an improvement, bravo! That's why we can't live without Martin and his teaching... I hope he'll do his recording streams regularly!!
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As I previously posted, I have been working on two arrangements of Astor Piazzolla's pieces from his Tango Opera, Maria de Buenos Aires. The first piece was Alevare which I posted last week and the second is Poema Valseado (Poetic Waltz). Poema Valseado tells the story of Maria wandering through the streets of Buenos Aires as she falls deeper into the dark side. Here is the final stanza of Poema Valseado from the libretto by Horacio Ferrer.
"I am Maria from Buenos Aires
Maria from Buenos Aires, I'm my city!
Maria tango, Maria of the slums
Maria night, Maria fatal passion,
Maria of the love of Buenos Aires
It's me!
Again, the arrangement was done by Agustin Carlevaro, who arranged at least 20 Astor Piazzolla pieces for solo guitar. The challenge in playing this piece is to capture the dark poetic nature of the music by playing it very legato while trying to minimize left hand string noise.
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Dale Needles I think you really captured the "dark poetic nature" of the piece. I really enjoyed the listening.
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Hélène Beaulieu Dale, Excellent! I really like this piece. Perhaps you can steer me to where I can find this transcription.
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Paul Kennedy I agree, it is a beautiful and haunting piece. Agustin's arrangement is published by Editorial LAGOS, Buenos Aires, Republica Argentina. The title of the publication is Maria de Buenos Aires - Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. Suite Para Guitarra (Arreglo Libre) De Agustin Carlevaro. It may be out of print since it was published originally in 1973. If you can not find it, email me directly.
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Dale Needles very nice, Dale. Beautiful piece and, as Helene already stated, you captured the poetic character. Great sound.
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joosje Hélène Beaulieu Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the piece. As I mentioned to Paul, this is a beautiful and haunting piece that really grows on you and a little different from the more commonly played Piazzolla pieces.
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Dale Needles beautifully played Dale, great balance of colors, dynamics and phrasing!
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks. I feel it is coming along nicely, just needing a little smoothing out. As you may have noticed, I try to apply Abel Carlevaro's right hand technique to bring out the color of the notes, using his toque (stroke) #3 for the rounder sounds and toque #5 for the more metallic tones. I also use the flesh of the thumb for most of the bass lines wirh an occasional nail for more emphasis.
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Dale Needles I know what you mean... I recognize myself in what you're doing, while like you I haven't had the chance to study with Master Carlevaro, I had the chance to study with one of his pupil. To me, the sound I produce out of the instrument is not only defined by the kind of plucking or the quality of one note but mostly by the whole sound created out of multiple voicing combined to express a musical idea, and Carlevaro's approach gives you a lot of tools to reach that goal. Good work Dale!
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Dale Needles That was beautiful. I have never heard that before. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful performance.
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Jack Stewart Thanks. I am glad you enjoyed it. Agustin does some amazing arrangements of Piazzolla's music and it is always nice to find scores that are not generally performed.
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