Holst St Paul’s Suite: A Guide to String Writing (Part 4)
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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →The second movement of Gustav Holst’s ‘St Paul’s Suite for string orchestra’ is entitled ‘Ostinato’. This Italian word has the same basis as the word […]
Read More →Gustav Holst was one of England’s most eminent composers in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1905 until his premature death in 1934, […]
Read More →String players often discuss the need for ‘bow markings’ or simply ‘bowings’, but what are they and why do they matter? The basic premise is that […]
Read More →About a year ago I wrote a blog entry called ‘Bring on the Viola‘ which discussed the merits of this sometimes overlooked and under-appreciated instrument […]
Read More →The Trill (also known as The Shake for some reason…) is a musical device which is common to most instruments as well as more accomplished […]
Read More →Grace Notes fall into the category of ‘ornamentation’ as they are embellishments which help to give life and energy to a phrase. They are not […]
Read More →Many of the songwriters and music producers we deal with don’t read music and therefore rely on allowing programs such as Logic to print out […]
Read More →Over the last couple of weeks, we have been recording strings for an album of healing music which has also featured oboe, cor anglais, flute, […]
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