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Re: Off Topic : The Sop, the Picc, and morons.

Dave Lancaster wrote :

> OK Ian, to help you understand about dynamics and articulation, name 
> one extract from the mainstream picc. repertoire which calls for the 
> controlled, hushed lyricism of 'Green' from Spectrum

Depends on what you mean by "mainstream picc repertoire" but, off the 
top of my head, I would say the 3rd movement of the Viviani Sonata 
No 2, or the Melani cantata "All'armi, Pensieri" or the Alessandro 
Scarlatti aria "Mio Tesoro" or the second movement of the Grossi 
Sonata No 11, or any one of dozens of other pieces.  Of course, these 
are only the controlled hushed lyrical movements from the baroque 
repertoire originally written for trumpet, and that's without looking 
at the significant number of transcriptions for piccolo trumpet from 
the repertoire of other periods and instruments.

Going back to my earlier point, many of these pieces could be played 
equally on picc, on D or Eb trumpet, or on Eb cornet (though the last 
would not be my instrument of choice, I have played more than one 
Handel oratorio on a borrowed Eb cornet in the past).

You see (and for the sake of the literal-minded amongst us, the 
following comment is not meant entirely seriously.  It is, in fact 
tongue in cheek) the trouble with soprano cornet players is that they 
discover "controlled, hushed lyricism" two hundred years after 
everyone else, and then think they were there first!

Ian McKechnie
<mckechnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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