News
and Free Downloads
NEWS
(April 2008)
We
are currently in production with a new edition of John Korak’s,
Giuseppe Concone, The Complete Solfeggi for Trumpet (BQ-51). The
new edition will include a CD-ROM with printable PDF files of
all the piano accompaniments for all the etudes as well as SmartMusic
files for the entire book! Stay tuned for availability –
probably in June.
Also
in the works is The Britton Theurer Collection – five works
for brass quintet: Americantus, Animal Rights, Colloquy, Solanum
Dulcamara and AmeriCanadian Rhapsody (for two quintets). All of
these remarkable pieces have been recorded by The Meridian Arts
Ensemble and samples of these recordings will be installed on
the web page when the pieces are ready for sale, later this summer.
The
SmartMusic applications will continue to be developed for the
Cichowicz Orchestral Excerpt Collection, the Jean-Marie Cottet
accompaniments to the Charlier etudes, and others. If you are
not already on the mailing list, let us know so that we can notify
you when these new editions become available.
The latest: “Vuelta del Fuego” (Ride of
Fire) for Brass Quintet (BQ-96), by Kevin McKee. Kevin
follows up his success with “Escape” (BQ-86) with
this dashing and romantic Spanish flavored work of 7’30”
duration. The audio file is installed on the page. http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-96.htm
“Escape” for Brass Quintet,
by Kevin McKee. Listen to an audio file. Download
sample score pages.
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-86.htm
We’ve
added numerous other audio samplers – check out this list:
Baldwin: “Music for Al’s Breakfast” sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-29.htm
Baldwin: “More
Music for Al’s Breakfast” sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-30.htm
Baldwin: “Music
for Al’s Breakfast III” sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-31.htm
Baldwin: “Concerto
for Al’s Breakfast” sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-32.htm
Kirby: Sonata
for Trumpet and Piano, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-37.htm
Lesemann:
“Lux Lituorum” for 8 Trumpets
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-45.htm
Mase: “Three
Venetian Canzoni” for brass quintet, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-52.htm
Mase: “Four
Monteverdi Madrigals” for brass quintet, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-53.htm
Mase: “Fancies
on Italian Madrigals” for brass quintet, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-54.htm
Mase: “A
Suite of 17th century Dances” for brass quintet, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-55.htm
Halligan:
“Meditation” for Trumpet and Piano, sample
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-87.htm
Engelke, ed:
“A Brazilian Collection” five solos for Trumpet and
Piano, samples
http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-89.htm
Here is a quick overview of
Recent Additions. Click on the link to take you to the complete
description of each item.
Scroll further
down to see information under the following headings:
• Errata List
•
Free Downloads
1/9/2006
ERRATA:
BQ-2
McGregor:
Audition and Performance, Vol.
2, 1997 Edition: page 70, fourth line, 4th
measure (the first in Cut Time), second note should be B-flat,
not B-natural.
BQ-3
McGregor:
Audition
and Performance, Vol. 3,
2005 Edition: page 16, third measure after #127, second note of
second trumpet should be C-sharp, not C-natural. On page 70, fifth
line, first measure, the second trumpet part has some rogue sixteenth
rests printed – take them out – the rhythm should
look exactly like the first part in the same measure.
BQ-13
Lillya:
Trumpet Technic,
page 37, in the Parsifal excerpt: there should be a slur marking
from the very first note (E-flat) until the first note of the
second line; in the fourth line, first measure, the B-flat half-note
(beats 3 and 4) should be tied to the B-flat eighth note at the
beginning of the next measure.
BQ-48
Lillya:
Method for Trumpet and Cornet Book 2,
page 37, line 4: the eighth note in the measure should be F-sharp,
not F-natural. On page 39, in the second measure, that half-note
should be a dotted half-note. On page 49, fourth full measure
– the rest at the end of that bar should be a quarter rest,
not an eighth rest.
BQ-51
Concone
/ Korak
Complete Solfeggi for Trumpet,
page 4: it should say Glossary of “Italian” terms,
not “Foreign” terms.
BQ-59
McGregor:
Daily Scale Builder for Trumpet,
page 47, second line from the bottom, key signature for whole
tone scale: delete the A-flat mark and add a C-sharp mark.
BQ-60
Purcell
/ McGregor:
Sonata for Trumpet with Brass Quintet,
In the
last movement, the solo trumpet part is missing four different
measures of rest: Measure #7, #39, #67 and #98 are lost in cyber-space
in a way only a computer would know. A new part is being constructed
to correct this anomaly.
BQ-64
Fricke:
104
Progressive Exercises, Vol 1.,
page 29, measure 35. The first note should be A-natural, not A-flat.
Page 47, measure 23, trill on the second half note of the measure.
BQ-88
Cichowicz:
Orchestra Excerpts for Trumpet with
Piano Accompaniment.
Trumpet
players must play from the Solo part in the transpositions that
occur there. It does no good to learn the music from the piano
part where the trumpet line is always written in concert pitch
– you MUST know the transpositions because that is the music
you will see at an audition and when you play in the orchestra.
Solo
part,
page 29, 5 measures after #141, the last note should be written
B-flat, not C. Piano part, page 65, fourth measure
after #141, beats two and three should be A-flat, not B-flat and
in the next measure (fifth after #141) the first and last notes
of the measure should be A-flats and not B-flats.
If anyone
finds more, please let us know. Listing them will help everyone
and will help us prepare a better subsequent printing.
FREE
DOWNLOADS
A
Runner’s Fanfare, duet for
two trumpets or horns, by Rob Roy McGregor
Composed for and performed at the opening of the Los Angeles Marathon
2002
Trumpet
Talk for Teachers, by Clifford Lillya,
© ITG 1979 reprinted by permission.
Clifford
Lillya was an exceptionally gifted teacher who built up a wonderful
studio at the University of Michigan over a thirty-two year span.
Highly intuitive and creative, he was concise and precise in his
use of language and imagery. In this talk he outlines in unusual
detail his concepts and applications of his teaching methods.
Made available here through the generosity of the International
Trumpet Guild.
In
Defense of the Polka, by Clifford
Lillya, Journal of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Assoc.,
ca. 1955.
In this short
piece, Lillya comments on the evolving solo repertoire for the
intermediate trumpet player, discussing the pros and cons and
citing a timely warning to teachers about projecting their own
needs upon those of their students.
Young
Trumpeter’s Guide, by Jean
Moorehead Libs
RECOMENDATIONS FOR BEGINNING BAND METHODS AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS
FOR STUDY.
A
Guided Tour of Clifford Lillya's Trumpet Technic,
by Rob Roy McGregor
For those
who did not have the opportunity to study directly with Clifford
Lillya, this short guide to Trumpet
Technic (BQ-13) is meant to help get the
most out of this wonderful book.
Lillya put this material together shortly after coming to the
University of Michigan in 1947 as a syllabus for his students.
It acts as the hub of a wheel tying together a wide variety of
other practice materials. It also contains an introduction to
transposition with many orchestral excerpts and a generous helping
of solo and ensemble literature.
It was first
published in 1952 by Carl Fischer Music, Inc. In 1995, Rob Roy
McGregor (Balquhidder Music) and Dennis Horton (Elan Brass Impressions),
under Lillya's guidance, revised, augmented and re-published the
book. For a full description of the contents, click on Lillya,
Trumpet Technic
in the catalog.
