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NO, Johanne Strauss II. I heard it on 2006 Vienna Neujahrkonzert. Thank you anyway. And it's in B Flat

Eh, what I actually want to know is: G E E E | G E E e | dcBAG F |E F G |G E E E |G E E e | dcBAG B |c ...

Eager for your reply, thanks! :P

too sad to believe his death!

Doubtlessly, he is an important contemprorary composer. But how can a Chinese composer wrote a passion after Bach's St. Matthew? It was really a incredible thing that HE was chosen to write the piece in momery to J.S.Bach on his 250th anniversery. I don't think he knows a lot about Christ. But his Water Passion WAS somewhat a success. Have you listened to it, or any other work (Ghost opera, symphony 1997, etc.) by Tan Dun? And how do you think of them? It seems that some western composers are interested in Eastern Buddha, such as Cardew, who wrote 'Grand Learning'. But can they understand the foreign culture well? Have they expressed what they thought? Does the mixture of the East and the West produce good art?

Then, Stravinsky used two tenore tubas in La Sacred du Printemps

He's completely a dissonace composer while he often play jokes with a hamonic chord, such as in his 'pro&contra'. It begins with a D chord, which represents 'pro', followed by a culster of tones as 'contra'. Really an interesting and excellent thought! And BOOK says that arvo part's 2nd brings dissonace to an unbearable level, i don't think so. How about you?

Luciano Berio wrote a solo piece Sequenza V for trombone in 1965, dedicated to Benny Sluchin; Horns are everywhere used; Vaughen Williams wrote a concerto for tuba, really a hard piece! An euphonium piece?.......i'm trying!

Please tell me how much Archi is needed in this work(the exact number), anybody? It's a fact that Stravinsky didn't like Archi. He used a few strings in his orchestral works, while the woodwinds and the brass are often of huge scale. But actually he paid a lot of attetion on the strings. You can learn from his scores to find that the performing and dividing of the strings are carefully arranged. You can see the notes('Sul ponticello' and 'col legno', etc.) everywhere. Maybe Stravinsky liked the strings to be a group of soli---just like the woodwinds. In the 'Introduction' and 'Mystic Circles of the Young Girls' of 'THE SACRIFICE', the strings are divided to an extent that nearly one stave for one string intrument. Really a creation! Still, I think the scale of the strings should be enlarged. In some episodes---especially 'Dances of the Young Girls', the strings are not forte enough. Another thing to be concerned is why Stravinsky never used Arpa?

Have you played them? Difficult or impossible? Talk about your expierence and understanding. There no doubt that it has been a milestone in the 20th century's music. Really, no other works can be such an encylopaedia of instrument playing like that. And, have heard or seen Berio's Sequenza 14(for computer)?

:D I just wonder how to play a tone cluster well. Especially, I think it's impossible to press all the keys by arm at the same time because black keys are over the white ones. I don't how Henry Cowell did it. Could you tell me? Thank you! :blush:

As we know, Stranvinsky wrote only a few atonality works after the 1960s. The achievement of 'Rite of Spring' is the complex of beat and the mixture of harmonic scale and diatonic scale. And, as a piece for an orchestra of such large scale, the use of intruments is also remarkable, expecially the wind(of course. he love wind).