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Author: raddatcj
Date: 2006-04-02 10:53
I recently played the fantasy pieces for the first time and was impressed..not difficult as far as technique goes but very difficult far as making real music goes. I havn't heard much about these on the forum and was just curious what people thought of these pieces.Easy but hard to make sound just right is my opinion.
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2006-04-02 10:55
I've just recently looked at these - they look very interesting. Certainly tuneful.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-04-02 15:45
There is a whole lot in these "3 easy pieces." Some good advice on understanding and playing them, the choice of Bb or A instrument, ... on this forum. SEARCH
Bob Phillips
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-04-02 21:52
Bob - not "3 easy pieces", the reference is not to Schumann but to Niels Gade's fantasy pieces, of which there are four, all written for Bb clarinet.
Gade was a Danish composer of the mid-nineteenth century. The idiom is akin to Brahms. The pieces are technically quite easy, grades 5 to 6 in terms of UK exam grades.
Pronouncing the composer's name is an issue. Certainly not a monosyllabic "Gaid". Not the Germanic "GAHduh" either. The BBC seem to favour "GAIRthuh". Our Scandinavian contributors may wish to offer advice!
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
Post Edited (2006-04-02 21:53)
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-04-03 04:29
I was going to comment on Schumann's Fantasy pieces... -_- Very good insight David, learnt something new today!
Howard
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-04-03 06:48
Neils Gade He is/was a contemporary of Mendelssohn and spent most of his life away from his native Denmark. Wrote some wonderful symphonys, one of them in the form of a Piano concerto.
His surname is pronounced GAITHER (with the ai like air and the d like the th in thy).
tak skal du har
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-04-03 15:28
Thanks, David!
I've just started working on the Crusell 2nd Concerto and am lovin' it. Guess I need to explore further the literature from Scandanavia.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2006-04-03 17:18
The royal library of Denmark provides many Danish composers' scores on line although I could not find Fantasie for clarinet and piano composed by Gade except his other scores. However, this is a good resource for Danish music.
Danish music
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-04-06 09:22
Hiroshi - thank you SO much for that wonderful link ... readers, persist with it, there is an English section for those of you not gifted in Danish.
tak Hiroshi, tusind tak!!
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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