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Page12 #5, Menuet
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - July 12, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 12 Number 5, Menuet, performed by David Summer. This duet is entitled "Menuet". It's a spelling variation on the word "Minuet". As previously noted, a minuet is a social dance of French origin, for two people, in 3/4 time. This minuet follows the c...
Page11 #4, Hunting Song
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - June 28, 2009 12:00 - 48 seconds ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 11 Number 4, Hunting Song, performed by David Summer. This duet continues the hunting theme but this time in 2/4 instead of 6/8. A challenge for the student here is that the second trumpet is generally playing different rhythms than the first trump...
Page11 #3, There Rode Three Horsemen
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - June 14, 2009 12:00 - 55 seconds ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 11 Number 3, There Rode Three Horsemen, performed by David Summer. Similar in style to the duet entitled Hunting Scene and also played as 6/8 "in 2". It can be a challenge for a student to properly subdivide the rhythms in this duet. Particularly t...
Page10 #2, Christmas Song
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - May 31, 2009 12:00 - 55 seconds ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 10 Number 2, Christmas Song, performed by David Summer. This is another simple duet with an interesting tempo marking. Little clue is giving to the origin of this duet. Perhaps it celebrates Sinterklaas, the Dutch figure that formed the basis for t...
Page10 #1, Old German Song
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - May 17, 2009 12:00 - 43 seconds ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 10 Number 1, Old German Song, performed by David Summer. The composer of this duet, Valentin Rathgeber, was a versatile and prolific baroque composer. He was one of the most popular and respected composers from southern Germany. His works for trump...
Page9 #9, Evening Story
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - May 03, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 9 Number 9, Evening Story, performed by David Summer. Evening Story is the last of the series of duets by Viktor Korda. This duet is an example of "program music". Program music is intended to invoke images in the mind of the listener by musically ...
Page8 #8, Rustic March
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - April 19, 2009 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 8 Number 8, Rustic March, performed by David Summer. The second trumpet starts both of the first 2 sections of this march. The third section of the march (the "Trio" section) changes key, as is typical in a march. What is not typical here is that t...
Page7 #7, Minuet
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - April 05, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 7 Number 7, Minuet, performed by David Summer. A minuet is a social dance of French origin, for two people, in 3/4 time. This simple, but elegant, minuet has the trumpet 2 part echoing the trumpet 1 part a fifth lower in several places. The met...
Page6 #6, Hunting Scene
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - March 22, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 6 Number 6, Hunting Scene, performed by David Summer. This duet invokes an image of a European style hunting expedition, complete with the sounding of the hunting horn (the "Trompe-de-Chasse"), from which the modern French Horn is descended. ...
Page5 #5, Polonaise
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - March 08, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 5 Number 5, Polonaise, performed by David Summer. A "polonaise" is a slower dance in 3/4 time. It is of Polish origin (polonaise is French for "Polish"). The Polish composer Frédéric Chopin is considered a master of the polonaise. Again, dy...
Page4 #4, March in G
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - February 22, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 4 Number 4, March in G, performed by David Summer. This "march" is similar to the first duet in the book and features many "staccato", or "detached" passages. The student should note the dynamic contrasts that set off the different sections of this...
Page4 #3, Canon
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - February 08, 2009 12:00 - 58 seconds ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 4 Number 3, Canon, performed by David Summer. A musical "cannon" is an imitation of sorts. Here, the first trumpet part begins with the melody and the second trumpet part imitates that melody a measure later. This "delay" in the second trumpet pa...
Page3 #2, Petite Waltz
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - January 25, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 3 Number 2, Petite Waltz, performed by David Summer. This "little waltz" by Korda, is a pretty piece and provides a good opportunity for the teacher to explain just what a waltz is to the student. In performance, it's important to keep this...
Page2 #1, March Time
Selected Duets for Trumpet Podcast - January 11, 2009 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelected Duets for Trumpet, Page 2 Number 1, March Time, performed by David Summer. This first duet in the Selected Duets for Trumpet book, Volume 1, is from Nine Duets by the composer Viktor Korda. The tempo is indicated as "March Time". Like most tempo markings, this one is open...
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