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Month: January 2013

Recording in Churches

January 31, 2013
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Recording in Churches – the Advantages and Disadvantages When musicians are looking for the most natural sound to record in (particularly for an acoustic instrument […]

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What a double bass adds to a string section….

January 29, 2013
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The double bass (or contrabass) is the lowest-pitched member of the string section, as well as being one of the tallest and bulkiest of all […]

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Holst St Paul’s Suite: A Guide to String Writing (Part 4)

January 24, 2013
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This final movement of the ‘St Paul’s Suite for string orchestra’ is a reworking of Holst’s Second Suite in F for military band. The tune […]

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Holst: St. Paul’s Suite (3rd movement)

January 6, 2013
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In the first two blogs in this four-part series, I took an analytical look at the ‘Jig’ and ‘Ostinato’ movements of Gustav Holst’s ‘St Paul’s […]

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