This is a project I’d been thinking about for some months now but just haven’t had the time to get around to for various reasons. With the recent publication of Eric Siblin’s The Cello Suites as well as the general lacunae in conservatory Music History education regarding the music in portions of Europe during the [...]
So I’ve taken a bit of an unintentional break from blogging. I’m trying to post at least once a day for my own benefit (I’d like to get used to writing again–more as a way to develop how I organize thoughts on the page than for anything else). But back to the Solo cello recital [...]
Tagged Blogging, Cello, solo cello worksSo is it so strange that I get a kick out of practicing/playing Popper Etudes? I feel even more strongly that these little gems should be performed publicly more often. A number of them are great little show pieces–and let’s be frank, pieces like “Dance of the Elves” or “Spinning Song” are nothing more than [...]
Tagged Cello, David Popper, EtudesSo after finding another one of my composer friends, Steve Layton, on facebook (this site has got to be one of the best networking tools I’ve come across) he directed me to the new netnewmusic ning website. I put out a call for solo cello repertoire there and have gotten quite a number of responses [...]
Tagged Bibliography, Cello, NetNewMusic, solo cello worksI remember reading about a book years ago that cellist, Frances-Marie Uitti (she invented a playing technique using two bows so that she could play four part polyphonic music on the cello), that would be a technical manual on alternative 20th century cello techniques. What she ended up publishing was a chapter in the Cambridge [...]
Tagged Bulgarian music, Cello, Music, music resources, Non-Western Cello Techniques, Turkish music, World MusicCalling a music microtonal is really such an unfortunate and misleading thing and belies alot of the assumptions that we make (in the world of Western Music) about how another culture’s music is organized. Basically we take as a standard Western diatonicism and when discussing other culture’s scale systems (the idea of a “scale” is [...]
Tagged Arabic Music, Cello, Microtonal Music, Microtones, scalesIn the interest of charting my new found obsession with practicing, I’ve decided to start a “Practice [B]log.” Basically after each practice session I will take notes on repertoire or techniques worked on as well as my thoughts about the practicing process or the music itself. I haven’t decided whether I want it public or [...]
Tagged Cello, Music, practicingEventually I will blog more about using non-Western cello playing techniques. There’s a whole world of music out there and finding ways to adapt those styles to the cello isn’t without some precedent, but obviously it’s not something that’s easy to find. Until then I leave the reader with a few videos and links. A [...]
Tagged Add new tag, Cello, Dhrupad music, Hindustani music, Music, Turkish music, World MusicThis is more for my own sake, and also for the sake of not cluttering up this blog with lists of cello repertoire, but I’ve set up a Cello Repertoire Wiki so that I can quickly make a note about any repertoire I may come across for my Bibliography Project.
Tagged Bibliography, Music, music resources, pedagogy, solo cello worksOne half of the pleasure of doing research at a more general level (e.g. “Solo Cello Music Repertoire” rather than “Cello Repertoire by Popper”) is finding gems you’d never think to come across. Earlier I found a full CD recording of 20th Century Bulgarian Music for Cello Solo. I’ve never heard of any of the [...]
Tagged Anatoli Krastev, Bibliography, Bulgarian music, Cello, recording, solo cello works