... the music is still more Italianate than Russian, Glinka shows superb handling of the recitative which binds the whole work, and the orchestration is masterly, foreshadowing the orchestral writing of later Russian composers. The Tsar rewarded Glinka ... muddle, yet the quality of Glinka’s music is higher than in A Life for the Tsar. He uses a descending whole-tone-scale in the famous overture. This is associated with the villainous dwarf Chernomor who has abducted Lyudmila, daughter of the Prince ...

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... Date: January 19, 2007 Jazz-rock great Scott Henderson reveals his unique approach to improvising. You'll learn how to solo over major, pentatonic, melodic minor, diminished, and whole-tone scales, along with modern uses for arpeggios and triads all in the context of melodic and rhythmic phrasing. It also nails the hard-to-teach subject of improvisational ...

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... , 2, 3, and 5 sec. tone length, fortepiano, sforzato, and sforzatissimo TRILLS + CLUSTERS: Half tone and whole tone trills with crescendo and ... , 2, 3, and 5 sec. tone length, fortepiano, sforzato, and sforzatissimo TRILLS + CLUSTERS: Half tone and whole tone trills with crescendo ... , 2, 3, and 5 sec. tone length, fortepiano, sforzato, and sforzatissimo TRILLS + CLUSTERS: Half tone and whole tone trills with crescendo ... , 2, 3, and 5 sec. tone length, fortepiano, sforzato, and ...

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... points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 5: Chords - together and opposed Studies in double notes Whole tone scale Major teaching points highlighted in Mikrokosmos 6: Divided arpeggios Minor Seconds Major ...

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... voice, but this role is not quite right for her somehow. The mad scene is taken up a whole tone, and performed "a scritto" with no interpolated high notes. The result is interesting - the ... softens when he realizes her condition. Lucia collapses. Raimondo blames Normanno for precipitating the whole tragedy. Set design for iii.3 by Francesco Bagnara, ca 1844 (Civica Raccolta Stampe ...

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... craze of the moment, was still jazz composed and played with integrity. The gorgeous modal blues that uses Eastern scale whole tones with Western harmonic notions — chromatically — that comprise the melody and solo frameworks for Desmond in " ... on "Zen Is When," with its 4/4 time sling rhythm and simple melody — extrapolated by Brubeck in purely Japanese whole tone scale on the harmony. Also, the shimmer and whisper of "The City Is Crying," where Desmond's solo is one ...

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... might be modified slightly, to make a vocalist or instrumentalist's job easier in dealing with difficult keys, and usually involves no more than a half-step (semitone) or possibly whole step (whole tone) change. Vocal pitch may also be speeded up to "smooth out" a performance, or to make the singer sound younger. It may be used for special effects ...

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... Liadov’s Enchanted Lake all the more, though this paraphrase on Kastchei’s domain is beguiling enough, with its whole-tone splashes of colour and languid firebird, and Pletnev brings the details into firm but appealing focus. ... Korsakov’s arabesques captures the right degree of Shemakhani mystery – the RNO woodwind as a whole seem to have gained immeasurably in character – and the Wedding Procession duly blazes, ...

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... espressivo (piano - forte - piano) tremolo (looped) trills half and whole tone pizzicato tight, loose, snap (Bartók) col legno tight & ... -forte-piano) Contrabassoon flutter tonguing (sustained and crescendo) half and whole tone trills legato performance instruments Brass Trumpet staccatos (two variations) ... Tuba flutter tonguing (sustained and crescendo) Contrabass Tuba half and whole tone trills legato performance instruments Percussion Timpani Snare Drum Snare Ensemble ...

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... Groups * Sweep Picking: Using Sweeps in Conjunction with Arpeggiated Melodic Ideas * Using Wide Stretches with Unusual Scales and String Skipping o The Whole-Tone Scale o Diminished Arpeggios * Tapped Riffs Incorporating String Skipping * Tapped Riffs Executed as Sweeps o Alternative Minor and Major Sweep Arpeggios o ...

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