Hi everyone! I think I've finally blundered my way into this Blog, and it took me all afternoon. Now Pandora's Box is wide open, so stand back. And just wait 'til I figure out how to include incriminating photos taken last summer, and here around the house. Ruth: you'll love seeing Rachel's latest pottery, and I'll try to insert some pictures later.
I spent too much of the day fixing pin-hole leaks in my plumbing. My house may Look like a fairyland Victorian cottage on the outside, but ... all ye homeowners rest assured... it's a nasty tangle inside. Nothing ever works... know the feeling? .... so writing this scree is a relief!
SO... the most important things I want to pass on right now are some websites. As you know, FreeMusicInternetDownloads are my primary addiction, and I consider myself an almost insufferable expert on the subject, even tho' I know squat.
Here are some:
1. http://transpoalto.free.fr/ a quirky site obsessed with violas, viola ensemble music. The music is spotty, sometimes really fun and cute. Good if you have 3 or four viola accomplices. (I don't!)
2. http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/ Bretagne folk music. Celtic folk music, but real, not the overly popular, cloying, "I wish I were Irish" manufactured stuff you hear on "Celtic Sojourn".
3. http://www.cacophonix.com/ an English site, friendly guy runs it, and sometimes there are some neat solo/duet/trio things, downloadable, suitable for beginners.
4. http://www.eecellomusic.com/ of interest to cellists mostly. Cool.
5. http://www.kantoreiarchiv.de/interinfo a GREAT source of fairly easy string ensemble music. I download a lot of their stuff for my Sunday-afternoon Quartet sessions.
6. http://www.fac-simile.org/ This has a lot of quirky stuff. But if you want the Bach Cello Suites transposed for Viola, it's here.
7. http://www.jimpix.co.uk/v/sheetmusic/ another off-the-wall British site.
8. http://www.kb.dk/elib/noder/index-en.htm This is Pure Gold, but only if you're interested in unusual, Never-Played, fairly advanced chamber music. String Quartets by Danish composers, and, also, on this site, some really REALLY cool 19th-c. Danish christmas postcards with musical attachments. WAY cool.
9. http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/Events.php The absolute Mother-Lode of free music. In order to use it, you've got to know your periods, styles and composers, or you won't know where to begin. Most of it is reasonably well-edited, considering it's free (and so you get what you pay for!). There are Thousands of things here. I check in on it daily.
10. http://music.lib.byu.edu/piva/ZeyringerNP2.htm#leit This is just to top it off: it's an incredibly dry, boreing, Teutonic list of viola music that you can't possibly get anywhere, so it's just plain Maddening!
I'll write other stuff later, but I just wanted to get this internet-download list off to everyone.
JB
2 comments:
Thanks for the 'cello link.
The pianist in my piano trio found a pdf of the Hummel piano trio Op. 12 "somewhere", but can't remember where. Any idea where a likely place to find something like that might be? Based on your extensive experience ~g~.
Shirley,
Do you NEED the Hummel Trios? Would you like them? I have a hardbound copy of 7 trios, all parts incl., Litolff, n.d., but probably 1870-90. You may either buy the book from me for whatever £17.50 is nowadays (what I paid for it), or if you just want me to xerox one of them, I'll do it for nothing.
I got these in '00 when I was still gung-ho for doing piano trios. Now I'm not, and 50 years of playing the piano badly was Eeeeeee-NUFF!
I've offered Bruce Potterton my collection of piano trios, but if you're interested, I'd give you first preferance, since, frankly, there's little chance that stuff like Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn Piano Trios would ever get much use in Lubec. (Let's get real!)
To get back to me, use this site, since my email may go into limbo due to computer stuff next week. (I dread it.)
jb
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