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09-18-2005, 04:46 PM
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Did bottesin write his own piano accompaniment for his elegies? just a question ive been wondering about...
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09-18-2005, 06:17 PM
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10-13-2005, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valparaíso, Chile | | | piano was the instrument of the period(XIX), if you didn't knew how to play it a la great soloist, you weren't then a respectable musician or something like that. |
11-14-2005, 03:50 PM
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11-16-2005, 05:19 PM
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While he, Bottesini, was writing his own accompaniments how, in what intervals, was he tuning his bass?
Anyone?
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11-16-2005, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | As far as I know, he played with a three stringed bass tuned A-D-G top to bottom. I'm probably wrong. |
11-16-2005, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | Paul: No, I think you're right. The three string bass (i.e. bass without an E string) was in fashion in certain places at certain times. Bottesini was one of its proponents, as were some other great composers. I believe even as late a Berlioz the bass was used and thought of highly. |
11-16-2005, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulCannon As far as I know, he played with a three stringed bass tuned A-D-G top to bottom. I'm probably wrong. | I would be surprised if he tuned his bass in fifths. My guess is that you meant bottom to top. After playing some of his 2nd concerto, it really seems that his instrument would be tuned in fourths. |
11-16-2005, 11:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | If I recall, Thomas Martin claims Bottesini would have played his second concerto in C minor. |
11-17-2005, 07:07 AM
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11-18-2005, 06:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | He would have played it in C minor, but only because he was using a higher scordatura. The notes on the page would still have been in A minor like the rest of us. Ahh, the wonders of gut strings.... |
11-18-2005, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by FractalUniverse piano was the instrument of the period(XIX), if you didn't knew how to play it a la great soloist, you weren't then a respectable musician or something like that. | It's still the case that if you want to study music at the very highest level, then you must play piano.
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11-18-2005, 02:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Valparaíso, Chile | | | i study piano! lol
i'm trying to improve my reading skills, that's so important! |
11-18-2005, 06:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Austin, TX | | | He wrote his own Operas too. |
11-18-2005, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | ... and premiered Aida in Cairo complete with live elephants! |
11-20-2005, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Valparaíso, Chile | | live elephants!!!  |
11-21-2005, 02:07 AM
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11-21-2005, 12:18 PM
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11-21-2005, 01:13 PM
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11-22-2005, 01:45 AM
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