Tutti who? Did what? lol Im talking about a guy who was active in the
music biz in the 60's and back...He was a producer and arranger for
Walt Disney Productions and did some versions of Disney songs. Right
now, Im focusing on "For NOw, For Always"...the love theme from the
original 1960 "Parent Trap".
Tutti Camarata(May 11, 1913 - April 13, 2005) Arranged and conducted a wonderful choral/orchestra version of this tune in the early 60's realeased on Buena Vista Records, Walt's recording arm.
Hey, the guy could write an arrangement! Here he gives that elite Disney sound with Strings, Horns, Woodwinds, and the great Disney Chorus sound. To say he was a genius in music would be very accurate!
I can hear some of the Disney alumni singers in there, NAmely Thurl Ravenscropft singing bass...Lets see, Im especially enamored of the instruemtal opening...with midrange strings starting out plaintively, that repeating the melody an octave higher in the 2nd bar....(they go high...)then some 4 dramatic chord progressions that lead into the main vocal. The whole thing is first rate from the opening note to the last part ending with that Snow White sound orchestrally...Acknowledgement goes to the unknown orchestrator that fleshed out Tutti's sketch...probably Bobby Hammack or Walter Sheets.
This is a "lost" sound..but Im glad I found it on youtube, and you can hear it also...
here's the link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWUgTJ1kqc
Warning....The song is very adult sounding and romantic...if you like old time love ballads you will love it, otherwise skip it!
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
William Lava TV and Film Composer(1911-1971)
William Lava TV and Film Composer(1911-1971)
Today I want to rap about one of my favorite tv backround composers of yesteryear..
HIs name was William Lava....A creative, yet true name..I first became familiar with the name William Lava when I started watching television programs produced by WB for ABC-TV in the early 60's.
His name most often popped up on the Television program Cheyenne, a beautiful tv western starring Clint Walker.
MAny an afternoon on rerun when televeion was mainly black and white, and didnt mind showing reruns of non color tv shows, I would get installments of preveiously aired programs of Cheyenne...so for an hour I'd sit and watch as "Cheyenne Bodie" drifted through various towns and situations often taking temporary jobs - sometimes as a lawman, sometimes as a bonty hunter, whatever he could find unusally involving
interaction with people. During the action, or tense parts of the programs Mister Lava's score graced my 12" audio speaker located directly below this humongous 27" television set, and provided some fat, turgid brass and string chords, most often utilizing a low piano chord to meld the dissonance together...
Often during a chase, his real "b" like fast moving violin figures rhapsodized over indians attacking a fort, or bad guys riding horses shooting at each other...wonderful stuff!
Not only did he score the episodes, but at the beginning and end we got to hear his wonderful theme song sung by the Disney bunch, Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee and company.(4 or 5 guys intoning in unison "Cheyenne, Cheyenne"...)
Later on having become a composer myself, and trying to investigate the backround of Bill Lava, it is seen that not much is found on the web about him...just the sketchiest of information which I will present here.
Willam B. LAva was born on Mar 18, 1911 in St.PAul, Minn.and attended Northwestern University, probably in the late 20's...Arriving in Hollywood in about 1936, Bill proceeded to score many westerns at Republic, and later did much composing, often uncredited at WB. Bill also worked in radio. One of the partial scores he worked for at WB was "Action In The North Atlantic"...
In the mid fifties Disney hired him to write music for the Mickey MOuse Club action series, such as The Hardy Boys, as well as some scores for Zorro.
During the period of the late fifties, thru the mid 60's he became inundated scoring many tv shows for WB including the Theme and scores for Cheyenne and F Troop, while at the same time taking over the composing chores for the WB Cartoons. Not only THAT, but also working for Paramount as a music supervisor for BOnanza!
When mentioning him to various luminaries at the WB music dept, it was told to me that he was not a great composer in the sense of a luminary such as Erik Korngold, but was a great technician and good "b" film man..well I agree that he was a great "b" film man, and if you love the sound of these old scores, I dont think one would want someone like Korngold or Steiner scoring them The music suits me just fine in this genre.
In his personal life, William Lava was a portly man who was a staunch anti-communist. Lava became known as an outspoken critic of the Cuban Revolution. He spoke in favor of direct military action against the Castro regime, continuing to protest in this manner from 1959 until his death.
Bill lava died on Feb 20 1971, leaving, in my opinion a big hole in the art of creating great blowout "b" music for tv....A few of the films he also worked on was
action in The North Atlantic, PT 109, and The Chamber of Horrors(House of Wax II)Creature From The Black Lagoon,etc
I never knew Bill Lava, but I miss him! I knew him through the character of his music.
Today I want to rap about one of my favorite tv backround composers of yesteryear..
HIs name was William Lava....A creative, yet true name..I first became familiar with the name William Lava when I started watching television programs produced by WB for ABC-TV in the early 60's.
His name most often popped up on the Television program Cheyenne, a beautiful tv western starring Clint Walker.
MAny an afternoon on rerun when televeion was mainly black and white, and didnt mind showing reruns of non color tv shows, I would get installments of preveiously aired programs of Cheyenne...so for an hour I'd sit and watch as "Cheyenne Bodie" drifted through various towns and situations often taking temporary jobs - sometimes as a lawman, sometimes as a bonty hunter, whatever he could find unusally involving
interaction with people. During the action, or tense parts of the programs Mister Lava's score graced my 12" audio speaker located directly below this humongous 27" television set, and provided some fat, turgid brass and string chords, most often utilizing a low piano chord to meld the dissonance together...
Often during a chase, his real "b" like fast moving violin figures rhapsodized over indians attacking a fort, or bad guys riding horses shooting at each other...wonderful stuff!
Not only did he score the episodes, but at the beginning and end we got to hear his wonderful theme song sung by the Disney bunch, Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee and company.(4 or 5 guys intoning in unison "Cheyenne, Cheyenne"...)
Later on having become a composer myself, and trying to investigate the backround of Bill Lava, it is seen that not much is found on the web about him...just the sketchiest of information which I will present here.
Willam B. LAva was born on Mar 18, 1911 in St.PAul, Minn.and attended Northwestern University, probably in the late 20's...Arriving in Hollywood in about 1936, Bill proceeded to score many westerns at Republic, and later did much composing, often uncredited at WB. Bill also worked in radio. One of the partial scores he worked for at WB was "Action In The North Atlantic"...
In the mid fifties Disney hired him to write music for the Mickey MOuse Club action series, such as The Hardy Boys, as well as some scores for Zorro.
During the period of the late fifties, thru the mid 60's he became inundated scoring many tv shows for WB including the Theme and scores for Cheyenne and F Troop, while at the same time taking over the composing chores for the WB Cartoons. Not only THAT, but also working for Paramount as a music supervisor for BOnanza!
When mentioning him to various luminaries at the WB music dept, it was told to me that he was not a great composer in the sense of a luminary such as Erik Korngold, but was a great technician and good "b" film man..well I agree that he was a great "b" film man, and if you love the sound of these old scores, I dont think one would want someone like Korngold or Steiner scoring them The music suits me just fine in this genre.
In his personal life, William Lava was a portly man who was a staunch anti-communist. Lava became known as an outspoken critic of the Cuban Revolution. He spoke in favor of direct military action against the Castro regime, continuing to protest in this manner from 1959 until his death.
Bill lava died on Feb 20 1971, leaving, in my opinion a big hole in the art of creating great blowout "b" music for tv....A few of the films he also worked on was
action in The North Atlantic, PT 109, and The Chamber of Horrors(House of Wax II)Creature From The Black Lagoon,etc
I never knew Bill Lava, but I miss him! I knew him through the character of his music.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ted Williams-Echoes of the Golden Voice
Ted Williams-Echoes of the Golden Voice
As most of you may know, it was only a few weeks ago that a homeless fellow
named Ted williams was photographed holding a sign up on a highway
in or around Columbus, Ohio..when a person with a cameraphone asked him to recite some golden throated announcing lines..as the sign Ted was holding up read "out of work announcer needs work"..or some such thing...after that, the photographer posted Ted reciting some lines on Youtube, an internet video site, and the fame of the homless man skyrocketed....Suddenly the nation adopted Mr. Williams as their mascot, and have been following his story.
Since that time, Ted has been offered various announcing jobs, and appeared on many talk shows....but the most pertinent one was Dr. Phil..it was here where the doctor
proceeded to try to help Ted recognize the whys and wherefores of his homelessness, including a drug and alcohol problem....confrontations with his relatives, many of whom he abandoned, for whatever reason, and coming face to face admitting his own addictions.
This turned into a "saga" where Ted would alternately show and not show up for various tapings...even getting deatained by the police after a fight with his daughter at his Hollywood hotel room. The bottom line from Dr. Phil was to try and get Ted into rehab, of which some anonymous benefactor would pay to have this newly found internet star attend and complete.
After agreeing to enter rehab on his own volition, approximately 2 weeks later Ted "jumped ship" and took off for parts unknown...
MAny folks, including me, were following closely Ted's progress and rooting for him to pull his life together and get clean and sober, and kicking "butt" on the annoucning world...just as many, according to posts on the website TMZ.com, have said that Ted is a worthless person, who doesn't deserve any accolades or help, and is just a bum(once a bum, always a bum they state), and that "we told you so" and "go back to your freeway underpass and be the bum you are..."
So goes the divided feelings of the general public about this man who has the god given talent to do wonderful announcing, but falls, or has fallen back on his proimises to "Get straight"
As a few, but very few people who posted on TMZ, understand the nature of addiction- getting clean and sober after 20 years of being on the street -it's not all that simple...Its a long and arduous road.
It is going to take time, if it happens at all...and I, for one, am hoping that although Mr. Williams has taken a step backwards by leaving rehab, that he will
somehow get back on the right track and go back and finish up...
No one(except a chosen few, obviously) knows where Ted went, or where he is at the present time....
MAny say they know where he is...back on the street getting high...I'm afraid they are probably correct...as the newfound fame was too sudden and the pressure to great...thus treading familiar habits and ground may at the moment be more comforting...
but somehow I can't help feeling that it isn't over for Ted just yet, and that he still may pull out of this....I am rooting and praying for him...
Hope springs eternal.
As most of you may know, it was only a few weeks ago that a homeless fellow
named Ted williams was photographed holding a sign up on a highway
in or around Columbus, Ohio..when a person with a cameraphone asked him to recite some golden throated announcing lines..as the sign Ted was holding up read "out of work announcer needs work"..or some such thing...after that, the photographer posted Ted reciting some lines on Youtube, an internet video site, and the fame of the homless man skyrocketed....Suddenly the nation adopted Mr. Williams as their mascot, and have been following his story.
Since that time, Ted has been offered various announcing jobs, and appeared on many talk shows....but the most pertinent one was Dr. Phil..it was here where the doctor
proceeded to try to help Ted recognize the whys and wherefores of his homelessness, including a drug and alcohol problem....confrontations with his relatives, many of whom he abandoned, for whatever reason, and coming face to face admitting his own addictions.
This turned into a "saga" where Ted would alternately show and not show up for various tapings...even getting deatained by the police after a fight with his daughter at his Hollywood hotel room. The bottom line from Dr. Phil was to try and get Ted into rehab, of which some anonymous benefactor would pay to have this newly found internet star attend and complete.
After agreeing to enter rehab on his own volition, approximately 2 weeks later Ted "jumped ship" and took off for parts unknown...
MAny folks, including me, were following closely Ted's progress and rooting for him to pull his life together and get clean and sober, and kicking "butt" on the annoucning world...just as many, according to posts on the website TMZ.com, have said that Ted is a worthless person, who doesn't deserve any accolades or help, and is just a bum(once a bum, always a bum they state), and that "we told you so" and "go back to your freeway underpass and be the bum you are..."
So goes the divided feelings of the general public about this man who has the god given talent to do wonderful announcing, but falls, or has fallen back on his proimises to "Get straight"
As a few, but very few people who posted on TMZ, understand the nature of addiction- getting clean and sober after 20 years of being on the street -it's not all that simple...Its a long and arduous road.
It is going to take time, if it happens at all...and I, for one, am hoping that although Mr. Williams has taken a step backwards by leaving rehab, that he will
somehow get back on the right track and go back and finish up...
No one(except a chosen few, obviously) knows where Ted went, or where he is at the present time....
MAny say they know where he is...back on the street getting high...I'm afraid they are probably correct...as the newfound fame was too sudden and the pressure to great...thus treading familiar habits and ground may at the moment be more comforting...
but somehow I can't help feeling that it isn't over for Ted just yet, and that he still may pull out of this....I am rooting and praying for him...
Hope springs eternal.
Monday, November 29, 2010
THEY HAD IT RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING(BUT DIDNT KNOW IT)
THEY HAD IT RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING(BUT DIDNT KNOW IT)
Today Im going to talk about "early" televsion, circa the late 40's, when tv was in its infancy...
Many technological innovations were not yet invented or discovered, and the immediacy of tv(which mostly "live") was WONDERFUL!
There were lots of mistakes, and they were done live on tv, and we, the audience rooted for those people,and enjoyed the immediacy of the medium. As Tv "perfected"
itself down the line, thru the invention of editing on Video tape, most programs became "Sterile"...no unexpected things happening in tv, just grew into the robotic mess that it is now...
Everything is perfected....if someone makes a mistake..the tape stops, and they correct it...We know days and weeks in advance what programs will be on, and the nature of these programs..
About the only thing "live" today is the news...and the cute little comments that the commentators do during their thing on camera..other than that it is super boring...
Television, I believe was meant to be "live" and as such, it would be a little more expensive to produce, but well worth it.This medium cries out for that.
I would someday like to see(if I ever became a millionaire I would do it)an all LIVE TV station...where the rules are no tape or film..
Ever thing must be done crude, as it was in the early days...if we did have film or tape, it would have to be limited to showing old movies, in a format with a host something like Ben Hunter's tea time afternoon movie on KTTV 11 in Los Angeles...Ben, a charming man, was a little reminicsant in character of the
older Frank Sinatra, sat and chatted with guests, or you the audience during breaks of from the film..also Live "hawking" of products were done, as in the past from such pioneers as JOe KArbo(again KTTV- "ALL Night Movies")etc..
There were times when there were technical problems, and we got a slide with recorded music,etc. till the problem was cleared up. Even this was "exciting"...tv was not alwatys a 24/7 thing..and so it was a thrill to know that a station would
sign on and off, and to this we would look forward.I swear tv can be resuurected, as long as the desire to bring it back alive, the way I, and many others believe it should be...
and that is "LIVE" In fact the station could be called "live"
Steveo
Today Im going to talk about "early" televsion, circa the late 40's, when tv was in its infancy...
Many technological innovations were not yet invented or discovered, and the immediacy of tv(which mostly "live") was WONDERFUL!
There were lots of mistakes, and they were done live on tv, and we, the audience rooted for those people,and enjoyed the immediacy of the medium. As Tv "perfected"
itself down the line, thru the invention of editing on Video tape, most programs became "Sterile"...no unexpected things happening in tv, just grew into the robotic mess that it is now...
Everything is perfected....if someone makes a mistake..the tape stops, and they correct it...We know days and weeks in advance what programs will be on, and the nature of these programs..
About the only thing "live" today is the news...and the cute little comments that the commentators do during their thing on camera..other than that it is super boring...
Television, I believe was meant to be "live" and as such, it would be a little more expensive to produce, but well worth it.This medium cries out for that.
I would someday like to see(if I ever became a millionaire I would do it)an all LIVE TV station...where the rules are no tape or film..
Ever thing must be done crude, as it was in the early days...if we did have film or tape, it would have to be limited to showing old movies, in a format with a host something like Ben Hunter's tea time afternoon movie on KTTV 11 in Los Angeles...Ben, a charming man, was a little reminicsant in character of the
older Frank Sinatra, sat and chatted with guests, or you the audience during breaks of from the film..also Live "hawking" of products were done, as in the past from such pioneers as JOe KArbo(again KTTV- "ALL Night Movies")etc..
There were times when there were technical problems, and we got a slide with recorded music,etc. till the problem was cleared up. Even this was "exciting"...tv was not alwatys a 24/7 thing..and so it was a thrill to know that a station would
sign on and off, and to this we would look forward.I swear tv can be resuurected, as long as the desire to bring it back alive, the way I, and many others believe it should be...
and that is "LIVE" In fact the station could be called "live"
Steveo
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thinking of 2 sounds from yesteryear
Saying of the Day:
Don' count your bowling balls before they're hatched, Fred!-Barney Rubble
Blog of the Day:
Haven't posted in awhile, but thinking tonight about one of TV's Greatest theme songs, as written by composer Fred Steiner..."The THeme from Perry Mason" turns out to be one of the best TV ever had to offer.This, from a courtroom drama TV Show that ran on CBS from 1957 to 1965, featuring Raymond Burr.
Ive been listening to Fred's arrangment...There is a middle 4 bar part on the vilolins which is very chilling....it is comprised of Violins A and B interweaving to form different intervals...4th's, 5th's, octaves, tritones, etc...It is instructional to seek out these intervals and play them on the piano!
I cant get enough of it...its quite wonderful...This theme was called "PArk Avenue Beat" and is done in 12/8 time...with a triplet feel, like the 50's (actually it was from the 50's - written in '57 - and when I asked Fred back in 1973 what he was thinking of he said "R&B"....
Then in the very early 60's came a wonderful vocal sound from The Four Seasons..a New Jersey doo wop group, that evolved into a hit making machine...
I love the vocals on the records. They were usually arranged by their Bass Player Nick Massi(now deceased)..and the sound could be somewhat dense, based on the voicings, and the tessitura, or lay of the parts...add Frankie Valli's soaring high parts...and you had a great "sound".They were the only groupl able to produce hits before AND During the Beatles invasion of AMerica(along with the Beach Boys)
Ok, just thinking about these 2 sounds tonight!
Steveo
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Don' count your bowling balls before they're hatched, Fred!-Barney Rubble
Blog of the Day:
Haven't posted in awhile, but thinking tonight about one of TV's Greatest theme songs, as written by composer Fred Steiner..."The THeme from Perry Mason" turns out to be one of the best TV ever had to offer.This, from a courtroom drama TV Show that ran on CBS from 1957 to 1965, featuring Raymond Burr.
Ive been listening to Fred's arrangment...There is a middle 4 bar part on the vilolins which is very chilling....it is comprised of Violins A and B interweaving to form different intervals...4th's, 5th's, octaves, tritones, etc...It is instructional to seek out these intervals and play them on the piano!
I cant get enough of it...its quite wonderful...This theme was called "PArk Avenue Beat" and is done in 12/8 time...with a triplet feel, like the 50's (actually it was from the 50's - written in '57 - and when I asked Fred back in 1973 what he was thinking of he said "R&B"....
Then in the very early 60's came a wonderful vocal sound from The Four Seasons..a New Jersey doo wop group, that evolved into a hit making machine...
I love the vocals on the records. They were usually arranged by their Bass Player Nick Massi(now deceased)..and the sound could be somewhat dense, based on the voicings, and the tessitura, or lay of the parts...add Frankie Valli's soaring high parts...and you had a great "sound".They were the only groupl able to produce hits before AND During the Beatles invasion of AMerica(along with the Beach Boys)
Ok, just thinking about these 2 sounds tonight!
Steveo
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and
Mimizan
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Town Wail
Saying of the Day:
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Blog of the day:
The Town Wail
USA Today ran an article yesterday about the return of noisy town sirens...WEll, back "in our time"...in small towns accross America we had some sirens that were usually mounted somewhere on the court house, or the nearby fire department..
and these were heard regularly on various occasions..often at night when one was asleep or drifting off to dreamland...The 10 Pm Curfew horn was one of them..
There has been a debate about the tradition of the use of these noisy, wailing sirens in small townas accross America, based on the noise they create..some people like them 'cause they contimute tradition, and others feel they are noisy and
archaic, and should be eliminated.
As I said, one signal was for the "10 o'clock curfew" alert, for folks who were underage, and that they had like 15 minutes to get back home after the wailing of the siren sounded.
In this era of cel phones, and IPhones, etc.. most kids already know when it's time to go home(if their parents have rules for them)...
The sirens in these towns, including one in my Ohio "home town" had long been used. Since I havent lived there for years, I dont know whether the sirens still go off or not..
but I do know(and i've blogged about this before) that they created terror in my heart as a young teen in the "cold war" era...
You see there were different "lengths and warblings"..one meant a "fire"...another the curfew, and yet another meant "take cover..nuclear war eminant.."
It was this last one that scared the holy SH** out of me, as I layed there in bed only about a block from these sirens..one could never tell what the signal was till the thing got cranked up in motion, and then we had to listen for a straight blast,
an undilating sound, etc..whatever the codes were(and Ive forgotten what they are...)but I think the straigh blast without warbling meant somesort of Civil Defense War warning..
BUT.. for about 15 to 20 seconds one got the be jeebers scared out of them till we firgured out what they were...
IS it a good idea for small towns to restore their sirens, or to continue them if they have them?
Traditionalists say yes..but this blogger says no! What's your take?
Steveo
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Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Blog of the day:
The Town Wail
USA Today ran an article yesterday about the return of noisy town sirens...WEll, back "in our time"...in small towns accross America we had some sirens that were usually mounted somewhere on the court house, or the nearby fire department..
and these were heard regularly on various occasions..often at night when one was asleep or drifting off to dreamland...The 10 Pm Curfew horn was one of them..
There has been a debate about the tradition of the use of these noisy, wailing sirens in small townas accross America, based on the noise they create..some people like them 'cause they contimute tradition, and others feel they are noisy and
archaic, and should be eliminated.
As I said, one signal was for the "10 o'clock curfew" alert, for folks who were underage, and that they had like 15 minutes to get back home after the wailing of the siren sounded.
In this era of cel phones, and IPhones, etc.. most kids already know when it's time to go home(if their parents have rules for them)...
The sirens in these towns, including one in my Ohio "home town" had long been used. Since I havent lived there for years, I dont know whether the sirens still go off or not..
but I do know(and i've blogged about this before) that they created terror in my heart as a young teen in the "cold war" era...
You see there were different "lengths and warblings"..one meant a "fire"...another the curfew, and yet another meant "take cover..nuclear war eminant.."
It was this last one that scared the holy SH** out of me, as I layed there in bed only about a block from these sirens..one could never tell what the signal was till the thing got cranked up in motion, and then we had to listen for a straight blast,
an undilating sound, etc..whatever the codes were(and Ive forgotten what they are...)but I think the straigh blast without warbling meant somesort of Civil Defense War warning..
BUT.. for about 15 to 20 seconds one got the be jeebers scared out of them till we firgured out what they were...
IS it a good idea for small towns to restore their sirens, or to continue them if they have them?
Traditionalists say yes..but this blogger says no! What's your take?
Steveo
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Daily Steveo
www.steveowenmobileblogger232.blogspot.com
Miimizan
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Studying MY Music(a ramble)
SAYING OF THE DAY:
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
- Anonymous
BLOG OF THE DAY:
Studying MY Music(a ramble)
As I look through some of the brilliant scores written in the past, I am at the
stage(thank god)where I can ascertain subleties in arrangements or orchestrations..this makes looking at scores and playing through them very pleasurable...
Knowing some of the tricks of the trade helps me understand what type of "sound" the arrangers were "going after"
Switching genres from neo romantic classical to jazzy things, to pop geared scores helps a great deal.Instantly when one sees the first page,one gets an idea of the style...
There are tons of old stock arrangements out there, but most from the past were sold as indivual parts, and no master "score" was available, thus we have to sit down with blank pieces of orchestra sheets and copy each individual part down
to see what the big picture is..I also find this enjoyable.
A lot of times handwriting is an obstacle, in trying to decypher the notes, or poor photocopies of certain parts...and I end up having to study and re copy a piano
part, etc...especially if it is piano concerto style with so many notes.
Many like to read an orchestral score which has each instrument in its own respective key..
but I find that a score made in "concert"(all in the same key)is the best for me..
not that I cant figure out the transpositions, but at first glance its a puzzle. I want to see "Exactly" where each pitch is in relationship to the other instruments.For that reason, as well as being pianistic in nature, I may re-copy certain sections of interest to put all parts in "concert"...
all the same key that it sounds in when it is heard)I may even copy the bass part way down low or the piccolo part way up high, cause these sound automatically lower and higher by an octave respectively.
Enough of my rambling! Hope you enjoyed it!
Steveo
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Dailysteveo
www.steveowenmobileblogger232.blogspot.com
Miimizan
http://zitbagblog.blogspot.com
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
- Anonymous
BLOG OF THE DAY:
Studying MY Music(a ramble)
As I look through some of the brilliant scores written in the past, I am at the
stage(thank god)where I can ascertain subleties in arrangements or orchestrations..this makes looking at scores and playing through them very pleasurable...
Knowing some of the tricks of the trade helps me understand what type of "sound" the arrangers were "going after"
Switching genres from neo romantic classical to jazzy things, to pop geared scores helps a great deal.Instantly when one sees the first page,one gets an idea of the style...
There are tons of old stock arrangements out there, but most from the past were sold as indivual parts, and no master "score" was available, thus we have to sit down with blank pieces of orchestra sheets and copy each individual part down
to see what the big picture is..I also find this enjoyable.
A lot of times handwriting is an obstacle, in trying to decypher the notes, or poor photocopies of certain parts...and I end up having to study and re copy a piano
part, etc...especially if it is piano concerto style with so many notes.
Many like to read an orchestral score which has each instrument in its own respective key..
but I find that a score made in "concert"(all in the same key)is the best for me..
not that I cant figure out the transpositions, but at first glance its a puzzle. I want to see "Exactly" where each pitch is in relationship to the other instruments.For that reason, as well as being pianistic in nature, I may re-copy certain sections of interest to put all parts in "concert"...
all the same key that it sounds in when it is heard)I may even copy the bass part way down low or the piccolo part way up high, cause these sound automatically lower and higher by an octave respectively.
Enough of my rambling! Hope you enjoyed it!
Steveo
Please visit my sister blogs:
Dailysteveo
www.steveowenmobileblogger232.blogspot.com
Miimizan
http://zitbagblog.blogspot.com
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