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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2013-09-06 20:14
Help settle an argument. The composer writes "augmentez" and then "diminuez" or sometimes just "augmentez". One faction of the group thinks this is just a crescendo and diminuendo. The other faction wants to make a crescendo along with an accelerando and then a diminuendo with a ritardando. Music dictionaries and French dictionaries haven't been any help.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2013-09-07 09:40
"Augmenter" and "diminuer", which are markings used rather often in French music (Enescu, of course, was Romanian, not French but lived most of his life in France), are in reference to dynamics. Thus they mean crescendo or diminuendo. I'm on the side of the faction of your ensemble that thinks this. How lucky you are to be playing this piece! I wish I had a chance to. I hear there are some fine musicians in Xalapa.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2013-09-07 17:10
We also played the Martinu Nonet. It was only the third concert in our new concert hall and the first ever chamber music concert to be given there.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2013-09-07 19:09
Sounds like a great programme. I highly recommend "Ocho por Radio" by the Mexican composer Revueltas: a fantastic piece. I have the music, but have never been able to get the funding to put it on. Revueltas didn't write much for the clarinet, but what a fantastic composer he was; one of the greats of Latin American music who lived too short a life. Keep in touch, Elmo!
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2013-09-07 19:48
Ruben,
Id be interested in that. It's it the same forced as the Enescu?
Peter Cigleris
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Author: ruben
Date: 2013-09-07 19:59
I'll have to check on that. It's buried in my library somewhere. Give me a couple of days. I know there are are strings, a bassoon, a clarinet, percussion, trumpet(?), maybe double bass. Eight anyway, as its name indicates. It was written for a radio broadcast, hence its name. Revueltas' music is not just "local colour". In this respect, he could be likened to Bartok. As Revueltas had a major drink problem, which brought on his early demise, he was also into bar talk.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2013-09-07 20:30
I've played some orchestral things by him in the past so any chamber music would be interesting
Peter Cigleris
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Author: ruben
Date: 2013-09-08 11:16
The configuarion for the piece I have spoken of is: cl/bn/trpt/perc./2vl/cello/dbl.b.
The only trouble is that this piece is rather short; about ten minutes, I'd say. There alo exist two wind quintets: 2 Piezas Serias/Suite. And "Planos" for 2cls/bn/pn/vl/cello/dbl.b. This piece seems to be slightly longer thann "8 por Radio". I am only familiar with "8 Por Radio", which I have played through but never performed. It would seem to me tha Revueltas should be in the public domain by now, so maybe the music is available and not just on hire. Good luck!
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: davyd
Date: 2013-09-08 15:48
Silvestre Revueltas died in 1940. Is that long enough ago to put his works in public domain anywhere?
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2013-09-08 18:42
Ocho por Radio is available for purchase, but it is not in the public domain.
To answer davyd's question: No.
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