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At 17:24 16 July 2007, Nyal Williams wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.
snip

How about Eric Satie's Gymnopodies (sorry if I spelt
that wrong)? And I feel there must be something appropriate
somewhere in Schubert's works.

At 20:24 16 July 2007, wrote:
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As for a Euphonium (or baritone as my students are
inclined to call
the instrument),

Not the same thing in the UK...
http://www.bandsman.co.uk/writing_l.htm#Instrumentation

depends on the style. I can just imagine ol/ Phillip
Wills racing off to the sounds of an English brass
factory band.

Many were formed not among factories but at coal mines
and the miner's clubs & welfares, and in Scotland and
Wales as well as England. Also, some call themselves
Silver Bands rather than Brass Bands.

However in this day and age most of the factories and
just about all the mines have closed. Thankfully some
of the bands live on, but I suspect some died, or died
when they needed new instruments. BTW I don't think
there have ever been many brass factories in England...

On Jul 16, 5:05?pm, Sally W
wrote:
At 20:24 16 July 2007, wrote:
snip

As for a Euphonium (or baritone as my students are
inclined to call
the instrument),

Not the same thing in the UK...http://www.bandsman.co.uk/writing_l.htm#Instrumentation

depends on the style. I can just imagine ol/ Phillip
Wills racing off to the sounds of an English brass
factory band.

Many were formed not among factories but at coal mines
and the miner's clubs & welfares, and in Scotland and
Wales as well as England. Also, some call themselves
Silver Bands rather than Brass Bands.

However in this day and age most of the factories and
just about all the mines have closed. Thankfully some
of the bands live on, but I suspect some died, or died
when they needed new instruments. BTW I don't think
there have ever been many brass factories in England...


Sally,

Yes, I know the difference, but "baritone" just sounds more "normal"
to high school kids. Alas, here in the states, baritone and euphonium
are almost interchangable in our band lit.

Agree that Satie would be good in the winter riding wave; definately
Wagner in the rotor. Mahler's 1st symphony (Titan) would be my choice
for ridge running.

Gary
GE8

You probably think of soaring as a competitive venture
that would require edgy music. Most of my memories
of it after 50 years indulgence is wafting around with
light wingloading in something like a Ka-6. That suits
the Debussy music better. I started in an SG-38 and
fly a Discus B now, but most of my time has been spent
as an instructor in Schweizer 2-33s and in Blanik L-23s.

Now, Bruce, what did you want us to learn in Wikipedia?

At 23:42 16 July 2007, Shawn wrote:
wrote:
On Jul 16, 1:18?pm, Nyal Williams
wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what
should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:



OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.
So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)
Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!
Now, there's a troll for you.
At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,
I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few
weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.
I am trying to figure out who did the music at
is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.
Oscar Alonso- Hide quoted text -
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Impressionistic is TOO ...well..dreamy (Debussy).
Not sure about
quartets, either. Wagner, Mahler, or Holst would do
much
better

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Yikes!

Ancient classics just don't work for me over videos
of glider flight.
How about Joe Satriani's 'Ice Nine' or The Vince Guaraldi
Trio's
'Skating' from A Charlie Brown Christmas? Or any number
of Philip
Glass* compositions? Brian Eno? C'mon I mean 'Music
for Airports'!
I'd even take Blur's 'Song 2' (cough) before something
written by some
fossil born before aviation ;-)


Shawn


*You other music geeky types might appreciate:
http://www.philipglass.com/html/pages/jokes.html

At 21:48 16 July 2007, wrote:
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Agree that Satie would be good in the winter riding
wave; definately
Wagner in the rotor. Mahler's 1st symphony (Titan)
would be my choice
for ridge running.

Wagner is also my music of choice for the T21 - imagine
it with a pair of speakers to make sure the local paragliders
get full benefit. The other music for the T21 is marches
- Dambusters, 633 Squadron and their ilk. Both T21s
I've seen have RAF roundels which is partly where the
feel for the marches comes from.

So many of the gliding videos have edgy pounding music
and it reminds me of DJs on the radio busy telling
me I'm having a good time. If someone is having to
tell me I'm probably not. I'm wth Nyal that the general
feel of gliding music is calm, flowing, a touch ethereal.
Some of the Bach solo cello & violin music also has
the right feel.