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2009 04 23 Jon Silpayamanant Uncategorized Comments (0)

on singing while playing the cello…

I had wanted to talk about this topic for some time now as I realize my ability (and willingness) to sing while playing the cello puts me in the minority of instrumentalists of many if not most genres–and especially with the minority of instrumentalists who play bowed stringed instruments. Singing isn’t the issue here, we’ve [...]

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2009 03 18 Jon Silpayamanant Performance Ethics Comments (0)

tentative solo cello recital program

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 [...]

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2009 03 15 Jon Silpayamanant Cello Comments (0)

Popper rawks…

So 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 [...]

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2009 02 26 Jon Silpayamanant Cello Comments (0)

update on solo cello repertoire bibliography

So 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 [...]

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2009 02 25 Jon Silpayamanant Bibliography
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Raks Makam

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2009 02 24 Jon Silpayamanant Resources
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Glossary of non-Western cello techniques?

I 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 [...]

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2009 02 23 Jon Silpayamanant Cello
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Microtones

Calling 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 [...]

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2009 02 19 Jon Silpayamanant Cello
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Practice [B]log

In 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 [...]

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2009 02 18 Jon Silpayamanant Cello
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Non-Western Cello Techniques

Eventually 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 [...]

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2009 02 13 Jon Silpayamanant Cello
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