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Showing posts with label Chang. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2011

7/17 Beethoven's Symphonies and Overtures for Guitarists and Experimental Music Lovers

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Picasso, "Woman with Mandolin" 1910 The symphonies of Beethoven are to me the greatest artistic creation in the history of mank...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

7/16 The Compleat String Quartets for Guitarists and Experimental Music Lovers

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Picasso: "Bottle, Guitar, and Pipe" Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany I've posted about my sequenced "rock" transcr...
Friday, July 15, 2011

7/15 The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'll Love Vol.2

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Remember when I posted the "The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'll Love Vol.1" ? Well here's Volume 2...hope you...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

6/21 The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'll Love Vol.1

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“Guitar” (1914) ferrous sheet metal and wire" MoMA © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'l...
Friday, June 17, 2011

6/17 All New Beethoven Guitar Hits!

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There's nothing more educational (for me, at least) than to post about Beethoven every single day - but a close second would arranging h...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

6/7 The Elegiac Song (3 Versions)

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Beethoven's Elegischer Gesang Op. 118 has the unusual instrumentation of chorus and string quartet.  Though it's more commonly perf...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

6/6 The Other Symphony in C Minor

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YOUNG BEETHOVEN (Lladró Porcelain Figures)  One of my favorite finds on the Unheard Beethoven site is the early Symphony in C minor whic...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

6/5 Lieder Redux 2 (More Clarinet and Guitar Arrangements)

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Yesterday I featured my sequenced arrangements of some of Beethoven's song lieder in the form of guitar and clarinet duos.  This time I ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

6/4 Lieder Redux (Clarinet and Guitar Arrangements)

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Recently I've been having some more fun with sequencing Beethoven compositions - this time rearranging vocal lieder from the original pi...
Friday, April 1, 2011

4/1 Squeezed, Stretched and Webernized Beethoven

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Well, being that today is April Fool's Day, I feel somewhat less inhibited than normal to post some of my more outlandish Beethoven ...
Friday, March 25, 2011

3/25 Beethoven on Exotic Percussion Instruments

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African Slider Guiro - Ghana Shaker Beethoven never visited the African continent or any other truly exotic tourist destinations in his l...
Friday, March 18, 2011

3/18 If Beethoven Played a Toy Piano

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About a month ago I posted Margaret Leng Tan's performance of the 1st movement of the Moonlight Sonata on toy pianos.  So when I recent...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

3/10 String Quartet Op.133 "Grosse Fuge" (Color Analysis and Rock Arr.)

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Yesterday was the color chart/video of Opus 130, and since the Grosse Fugue was originally the grand finale of Opus 130 it seems necessary t...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

3/9 String Quartet Op.130 (Color Analysis and Rock Arr.)

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Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 130 has the distinction of having had the "Grosse Fuge" as it's original ending, and then ...
Friday, March 4, 2011

3/4 "Learn to play Beethoven's 5th on Guitar" / Quartets V2

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Beethoven seems to inspire many guitarists.  After piano, there are probably more amateur guitar performances of B.'s music than on any ...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

3/3 Missa Solemnis (Color Analysis and Rock Arr.)

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The Missa Solemnis ("Solemn Mass") in D from 1823 was a work Beethoven himself hailed as his "greatest" - at least until...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

2/24 Beethoven's Mass in C (Color Analysis and Rock Arr.)

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Beethoven's Mass in C from 1812 is not as popular as the monumental Missa Solemnis from 1823, but it's actually a big favorite with...
Monday, February 14, 2011

2/14 Ode to My Hammer-guitarre, or "If Beethoven Played the Guitar Edition 99"

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As an experiment, I used my handy MIDI-switchblade to switch a few voices in the 4th Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony...I was curiou...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

2/2 Fur Elise Fantasia for Contrabassoon and Guitar

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It always surprises me at how stripped down Beethoven's arrangements are compared to say, Debussy or Mahler.  He only had one work with ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

12/28 Eroica Variations Autograph Battle

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15 Variations and a Fugue in Eb 'Eroica Variations' Op.35 (1802)  The Front Cover already has some "forebodings"...  Thi...