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- From: abrocke1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Aaron Brockett)
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- Subject: Re: Tuba
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:21:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.223647.4296@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- writes:
- >
- >
- > As well as that well-known weirdo RVW (he *could* be a little strange at
- > times), Derek Bourgeois has written a Bass-tuba concerto. John White wrote
- > a symphony for organ and 6 tubas (I don't know if the organ part called for
- > the Tuba stop) and Walter Hartman wrote a Tuba sonata, op. 76.
- >
- > I'm surprised there aren't more; the tuba is a surprisingly agile and
- > melodious instrument. See, for example, the development section of the
- > Meistersinger overture.
- > --
- > David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org
- > Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
- > All|berall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen! Ewig... ewig... earwig... O!
- >
-
- One more work for tuba: Chinary Ung, a contemporary composer who emigrated
- to the U.S. from Cambodia in the early sixties, wrote a piece called Spiral
- II for mezzo-soprano, tuba and piano in 1989. It's quite a piece!
-
- --Aaron
- Brockett
-