Free Stuff

[the elephant]

As far as I know, since I took all these from the originals, there is nothing covered by copyright law in these four volumes. I have used this for many years, but just did an old-guy edition, using the settings from my final versions of my brass quintet Christmas stuff.

The staves are larger, the lines bolder, etc. In short, it is much easier for me to read.

My well-thumbed copy that lives permanently on my studio stand is harder for me to read, very thick, and heavy, so I decided to break it into four volumes. Lots of half-pagers are now full-pagers, and lots of full-pagers are now two-pagers.

I have derived many benefits from the ideas behind this collection, and I will likely work from it every day for the rest of my life. This is one of the best pedagogical ideas I have ever had, if I do say so, myself. ;-)

Take a FREE copy. Use it for a few months. Toss it if you don't "get" it. Keep it forever if you do. It is handy for many things. I won't post how to use it. Make music and listen to your intonation very carefully. You'll figure it out or you won't.

Yes, I released a very early draft of this book many years ago. This one is in all ways better than that version. And yes, someone decided to use this same title several years after I put together my book. I have never seen a copy of their book, nor do I care to know anything about it. I have no idea who put it together.

I may decide to have this book published at some point. I will fuss over the name at that time if I have to. Meanwhile, grab yourself a freebie.

Good luck!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4b3xmro9 ... dei9o&dl=0

[arpthark]

Thanks for posting this! This looks like it took a lot of work.

I just had a look through everything and noticed that Bordogni is spelled "BordogniT" in the fourth volume.

I also chuckled at this:

This is one of the best pedagogical ideas I have ever had.

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I won't post how to use it.

Looking forward to seeing for myself!

[the elephant]

Spelling fixed, and THANK YOU for that. If you note anything else please pass it on to me; I'll fix it and repost it ASAP.

Download another copy of 4, if you would be so kind…

Wade

[BramJ]

Thank you! always looking for more music to play!
That clearly took a lot of work, that you for your generosity

I'm so glad that I decided to learn to play non-transposed parts (like the rest of the world) so that I am actually able to use it instead of of selecting specific parts and transposing those myself

[MiBrassFS]

Holy smokes. A treasure trove. Very generous. Many thanks!

[Three Valves]

Neat idea and execution.

[bloke]

Amazing.
Could you imagine all 120 of those that Rochut chose offered in this format? Those 12 are plenty for now.

[davidgilbreath]

Thank you, Wade. Exquisite clarity and readability. To quote my high school band director "Good gosh, Lord Halifax!"

David

[Colby Fahrenbacher]

Thanks for sharing these, Wade. I've enjoyed playing through the first two Sieber etudes over the past few days. I like that you've transposed them by ascending fifths, rather than descending fifths. I feel like most etude books would have you cycle through the flat keys first, but this forces the player to spend more time in the lesser played sharp keys.

I've been playing through them on F, and they lay very well on it, though they honestly look like they would work great on any key. On F, it's nice that you spend a little time in the low register, and little time in the high register, and a chance to model your best sound in the middle register.

These look great on an iPad and are very easy to read. If I were using this in a printed medium, I would probably want it formatted to fit two etudes per page, with a larger paper size to accommodate the extra space needed and make it still easy to read, but an iPad, it's perfect. The only other (non-functional) things that would be nice to see in a formal publication of this would be full crediting of the source materials (I'm not familiar with the Sieber, so it'd make it easier to find it if I wanted to find it) and a small header for each etude designating which in the set it is. Something like "No 1. Ab Major", just to make it easier to jump around.

Thanks again!

[bloke]

That sloppy old Robert King edition of the Kopprasch French horn etudes suggests that the player studying the etudes play them whatever alternate key would keep the given etude in the same position on the staff.

Imagine a future version of what is considered "standard" on a home computer and on its keyboard, whereby one would not have to download this or that music writing program and it was just a thing included with a computer or - at the very least - something like Libra Office (ie. downloadable and works perfectly without having to buy it).

What if all off-in-the-future published music were electronic and with a little click at the top of the page could be put the sheet music in any of the 11 other keys going up or down along with the accompaniment - assuming there is an accompaniment...(??) Even more than our instruments' solo music (for which there is no viable commercial consumer market) and classical music in general (which struggles with its dying market) pop music lead sheets for singers would be really handy to simply be able to click into any of the 12 keys, including keyboard accompaniment. I wonder if a computer could be smart enough to produce and transpose guitar tablature in all 12 keys? (The guitar range and length of neck are limited, so some things couldn't simply be shifted by a fret or two, and the computer would have to do a good bit of AI thinking.)

[Colby Fahrenbacher]

This already exists, although it is not widespread. Obviously, music notation software already has this function, and Musescore is free. The major sheet music readers for tablet don't have this yet, although there are some niche publisher libraries that are implementing it.

The major hurdle is encoding. You can't just transpose a PDF, it needs to be in a format (a music language format) that can be interpreted by a computer. Each notation software has it's own format, and MusicXML exists to bridge the notation software formats (to varying degrees of success). We don't think about it, but music notation is really weird, quirky, and full of all sorts of nuances that are difficult for a computer to understands. And that's not even getting into traditional western vs. other notation systems.

So there are a few publishers who are encoding their music so that their music reader can have this functionality...but it only works for music they have encoded. We can't just load our favorite PDF and have access to this transposition function. We could view the file, but not transpose it.

As with our riveting discussions about the move to digital and tablets, as the market for this software grows, we will see more options. I'm willing to bet this is closer to being a reality than you realize.

[rodgeman]

Thank you for taking the time to format and share. My eyes appreciate it.

[the elephant]

BUMP!

If you do not download the four books how can I possibly track your travel patterns, voting practices, and *ahem* social life? Let's get with the program people; download these babies TODAY!

[bloke]

@Colby Fahrenbacher

[smitwil1]

Thanks Wade--You're too kind. If you don't object, I'd like to pass this along to my students, especially those whose parents balk at buying books as their child progresses ("...You mean you don't just GIVE them books like the school does?").

[Pauvog1]

Thank you, Wade! These look great!

[iiipopes]

Thanks!

[Eutubabone54]

Wow! Thanks so much for all of this! :