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This is a very difficult thing to do, that took me years to learn. The first thing to do is to copy the melody out and either the chord symbols or the harmony. If there’s a bass line, include that. You need to use harpistic figures instead of standard piano writing. The Salzedo-Lawrence Art of Modulating is a good guide to that and to improvising. It explains the difference in harp writing. You also have to be prepared to transpose, and sometimes create alternate harmonies. There is also a book by Verlye Mills on pop-music patterns for harp.
Carlos Salzedo’s LP and Jennifer Hoult’s new recording of the same, and John LaMontaine’s Wonder Tidings and Service of Lessons and Carols (featuring Florence Wightman, and Carol Baum).
Schott Ed. 7369
Concierto de Aranjuez
Transcripcion para arpa
fingering by Nicanor Zabaleta
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I would also prefer to make my own transcription, as I don’t think NZ or the composer made the best possible choices.
Trills also create excitement, add dissonance, and help emphasize the main note. Thus, a two-handed trill is more exciting, and allows for changes of dynamic. In this case, as I recall, the left hand is already being played by the orchestra, so it can be omitted without consequence.
It is very interesting to hear this. Then the Canadian candidate did not win any prize? It sounds like so many other competitions, and why I put no stock in who has won.
Somebody else can post their observations if they wish. Censorship is the worst thing.
Surgery is not the only treatment for trigger finger. However, it sounds like you have no loops to hold your tendons in place, which is what surgery would do. Somebody else posted here with the same description. Occupational therapy might be helpful.
To answer more directly, there are realistic musicians, and there are dreamers. Dreamers may be more of the soloist type, or a composer-creator. Dreamers may become producers of new things. Realists go wherever they get the gigs, I guess, follow the money.
Sounds like someone I know of, but won’t mention names. I am learning from my Rabbi about the need to be in reality. Dreaming helps us understand reality. What is fantasy and what is reality? You have to know in yourself the difference between what you can do, might do, must do and will do. If you are going to marry and have children, then your primary responsibility is ultimately to them. Then flute manufacture makes sense if it pays well and has benefits, and presumably, you can still play on the side.
How much energy do you have? Most people who are very successful as independent artists or entrepreneurs are very driven and have a lot of energy to expend on their goal. How much focus do you have? Settling is not such a bad thing, but it is a state of mind. What kind of person do you want to be? These are major questions that require major life advice.
Jerks sometimes point out to us what is obvious. Sometimes they are oblivious. If we are off-target, they should help us see how to hit the target our way, not their way, or just say, “you missed!”
What is stable? Life is very risky these days. Having a package of skills is a good thing. Music is very tough, and you face the same tough choices we all have faced. And how does the harp fit into this? You’re not going to have much free time. If you marry, then some of these are joint decisions, or all of them. Connections are very helpful if you have the skills. I bet many studio musicians don’t do it full time. You’re at the whim of producers. If you can find a way to balance them all, that would be nice, but I was never able to do all the things I wanted or needed to do at the same time, only consecutively, for the most part. Everyone’s life is a different pattern.
