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Started by SippinTea, May 12, 2010, 04:54:24 PM

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SippinTea

May 12, 2010, 04:54:24 PM
Did you know...

Charles Ives, in his composition The Unanswered Question instructed pianists to use a bar of wood 14 3/4 inches long (instead of their fingers) to play a "cluster chord"?

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"Going somewhere means leaving somewhere. Choosing something means choosing against other things. Gaining something means losing something else. And between the old and new--the 'was' and the 'not yet'--there exists only one thing: a very frightening journey called faith."
--taken from the book Coming Up For Air

SippinTea

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May 12, 2010, 11:12:59 PM
Do you know what a Heckelphone is? I didn't know until today. And they're really, really cool! Check it out here if you're curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckelphone

:beret:
"Going somewhere means leaving somewhere. Choosing something means choosing against other things. Gaining something means losing something else. And between the old and new--the 'was' and the 'not yet'--there exists only one thing: a very frightening journey called faith."
--taken from the book Coming Up For Air

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May 13, 2010, 10:51:20 AM
Hmm...wondersd what a cluster chord would sound like.. I doubt I could get pastor's wife to let me try that on her big piano we use at the church!


John  :waving:

The Purple Fuzzy

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May 13, 2010, 01:55:31 PM
Quote from: SippinTea on May 12, 2010, 11:12:59 PM
Do you know what a Heckelphone is? I didn't know until today. And they're really, really cool! Check it out here if you're curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckelphone

:beret:
I was thinking it looked kinda like an oboe, and when I read farther the aritcle said it's from the oboe family. Interesting.

SippinTea

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May 21, 2010, 06:01:49 PM
Did you know?...

- Paul Hindemith left home at age 11 to support himself by working in beer gardens, theaters, night clubs, and dance halls
- Hindemith also thought musicians could (and should!) master their art... and lived out his own philosophy to the point of composing Trauermusik (Music of Mourning) in just a single days, and performing it the next day.

:beret:
"Going somewhere means leaving somewhere. Choosing something means choosing against other things. Gaining something means losing something else. And between the old and new--the 'was' and the 'not yet'--there exists only one thing: a very frightening journey called faith."
--taken from the book Coming Up For Air
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