Thanks Douglas -- that's very good of you!
Has Bostridge recorded Winterreisse? I've heard him in a broadcast
performance of Britten's Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings, and he really
has a very wide range of vocal tone and interpretation at his command.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: musical dictionary?
>I have pasted your request into rec.music.classical
>
> And I wish I had known about Die schone Mullerin before. In Ian
> Bostridge's voice I find it much preferable to Wintereise, which is so
> dark whereas the miller is so lively.
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:40 PM
> Subject: musical dictionary?
>
>
>> I'm being driven mad by a theme which I know perfectly well is by
>> Schubert, . My inner ear hears it on piano, not too fast, triple time,
>> legato, but can detect neither vocal part nor other instruments with it;
>> and that's as far as I can go. And never have I been more annoyed at not
>> having perfect pitch! (Although I suspect flats rather than sharps, and
>> it's definitely in the major.)
>>
>> I once came across a dictionary of musical themes, for which you either
>> 'translated' the theme you wanted to look up into tonic solfa or else
>> transposed it into the key of C. This would give either, say, doh-re-me,
>> or C-D-E, in which guise you could then look it up. Is there an on-line
>> version, does anyone know?
>>
>> joanna --
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