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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Other Fagotes
The counterbassoon is a bassoon double bass that, years antrás, had defects that the manufacturers and interpreters have corrected. It is an instrument of conical section and double tongue, with wooden body. Also there exists a family of instruments of copper with double tongue called sarrusofones, that they usually replaced to the counterbassoon in the bands, especially between the French composers. At present he has remained relegated to: bands, while in the bands it is replaced by the counterbassoon.
Records and Stamps
The counterbassoon duplicates the size of a bassoon and one more octave sounds down. It has a wide tone in the serious one, with a penetrating and vigorous stamp, which becomes poor as it approaches the sharp one. On the other hand, the sarrusofón has a more morbid and effective sound.
History
Although for a time double bass was replaced by the sarrusofón, from the epoch of Haendel the counterbassoon did not leave the orchestral staff. Formerly, two existed contrafagotes intervals also, that a fourth and a country house were sounding over the counterbassoon, respectively. The counterbassoon has a pipe that measures almost 6 meters opened, but thanks to his design only it occupies 1,6 meters long and has metallic pavilion.
Big Works
The counterbassoon almost soloist was not used like instrument. We indicate some passages in which one emphasizes his role.
- Mozart: Funeral ode.
- Haydn: The Creation.
- Beethoven: Scene of the jail of Fidelio.
- Brahms: Changes on a Haydn topic.
- Ravel: Topic of La Bella and the Beast in My mother the Goose.
- R. Strauss: End of the third scene of Salomé.
The sarrusofón is used by assiduity in the military music and of bands.
I besiege in the Band
In the first line of the wood, to the right of the director, behind the violoncellos and the double basses. The counterbassoon is to the left of the rest of fagotes, in the end of the line of the wood.
Characteristics
In 1856, the French director of military bands Sarrus invented the sarrusofón and went so far as to enjoy his popularity. His use was known in the jazz of ends of last century. It had 18 keys with a fingering similar to that of the saxophone, and they were doing them in six sizes, from the sopranino to the double bass, always with the pavilion faced up, how in the tuba. It has a powerful and nasal sound. The skill of the counterbassoon is similar to that of the bassoon, but he is less agile and limited at the time of doing warbles and tremolos. One of the principal limitations is the respiration, since every scarce seconds must be renewed.
Brief
On February 17, 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, musician and Italian composer is born. Grosso contributed to the crystallization of the concerto. Author of numerous instrumental works (Concert of Christmas, The Follia, sonatas), father of the sonata for violin and inspirer of a group of composers of this instrument like Varacini, Germiniani and Viotti.
On February 13, 1883: Richard Wagner dies in Venice. Composer of German origin, renovator of the romantic opera. His inclination towards the music did not wake up up to knowing the works of Weber and Beethoven. After a life lax and invested in the game and the women, he married and traveled to Paris and then to Dresden, where his work was recognized. The transfer of his remains was comparable to the funeral procession of a big sovereign one.
On February 13, 1976: the soprano Lily Pons dies. A voice crystalline and extended towards the sharp one, joined a graceful figure and personal friendliness, they constitute the props of the formidable success of Lily Pons. An exceeded publicity helped to do of her almost a sacred monster of the singing; so much it was so in the decade of '40 went so far as to consider her to be the best singer of the world.
On February 12, 1924: there is released "Rhapsody In Blue" of George Gershwin. Gershwin managed to unite in this work three fundamental elements of the music of his country: the piano popular tradition, the harmonic treatment of the music of the theater of varieties and all the ambience of the African American blues.
On February 10, 1881: I release in Paris of "The Stories of Hoffmann" of Jacques Offenbach. The opera is an adaptation of Jules Barbier and Michel Carré of several stories of writer Ernst T.A. Hoffmann. The first one takes place with a mechanical doll, the second one with the victim of the conjuration of a magician, and the third one with a moribund sick person. The history begins with a prologue ambientado in a bar.
Appointments
Daniel Barenboim
"The director does not have physical contact with the music that his instrumentalists produce and at most he can correct the phrasing or the rhythm of the score but his gesture does not exist if it does not find a band that is receiving"George Gershwin
"It would give everything what I have as a little of the genius that Schubert needed to compose his Ave Maria"Gustav Mahler
"When the work turns out to be a success, when a problem has been solved, we forget the difficulties and the perturbations and feel richly rewarded"Franz Schubert
"When one is inspired by something good, the musician is born fluently, the melodies sprout; really this is a big satisfaction"Bedrich Smetana
"With the help and the God's grace, I will be a Mozart in the composition and a Liszt in the skill"
MULTIMEDIA
The Sea
Claude Debussy
Small night music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture 1812
Piotr Illych Chaikovski
Fantasy for a gentleman
Joaquín Rodrigo
Interpreters
Musicians
Astor Piazzolla
Piazzolla represents one of the rarest cases in which an author is unrolled of extraordinary form so much in the world of the popular music, with his tangos of Buenos Aires, as in that of the refined or classic music. Called symphonic tango created a new genre renewing this way of decisive form the tango. If it is considered that the work of Piazzolla begins in 1946 with The desbande and concludes in 1990, with Him grand tango and with Five tango sensations, that the same year records with the quartet of ropes Kronos, it is deduced that it covers 46 years, space in which it produced not less than eight hundred works.
Voices
Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel is perhaps the biggest myth of the Argentina. His artistic skill, his incomparable talent as singer of the suburbs of Buenos Aires, his musical instinct to compose some of the biggest tangos of all the times, his marvelous character, his fanaticism for the careers, have led him to being equalled perhaps only by another legend of the country of the south of the Silver: Eva Perón. Nevertheless, while all political activity can be worth of objections, comments and mistrust on the part of certain sectors of the population, the figure of Carlos Gardel is erected as universally for all the Argentinians and the followers of the tango across the world.
Paris, on February 16
Juan José Mosalini: the soul of the bandoneón beats in Paris
The music and the dance of the River Plate came to the margins of the Seine more than one century ago, seducing the French, but Juan José Mosalini lives through the tango now a real explosion in France, of the hand of some of his contemporary teachers, like the bandoneonista. In an interview with the AFP in Paris, before traveling to Argentina, where it will offer two concerts, and from which it will set off then in the direction of China, Mosalini evoked "passionate and unconditional" relation between Paris and the tango and between he and the bandoneón, which came to his hands when it was a chiquilín.
Granada, on February 16
International festival tango Granada dedicates his XXII edition to Carlos Gardel
75 anniversary of the death of the singer and tanguista Carlos Gardel will lead XXII edition of the International Festival of Tango of Granada, which also will organize several parallel activities between which there are holidays of trasnoche, tango in the university or an exhibition. Between the artists who will take part in three forms of the festival - dance, set of instruments and sung - there is Leo Sujatovich, Cristian Zárate and the Japanese couple of dance Kyoto and Hiros Yamao.
