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Thomas Stevens
48 Lyric Studies
based on the Vocalises of Concone and Bordogni
for trumpet
Level: easy / intermediate
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The “48 Lyric Studies” consists of freely transcribed versions of selected vocalises by Giuseppe Concone (1801-1861) and Giovanni Marco Bordogni (1789-1856).
"Sometimes the music sounds the same as it looks, sometimes it looks different but it sounds the same, and sometimes it looks the same but it sounds different!"
Leonard Bernstein
The “48 Lyric Studies” is intended to improve the musician’s music-reading comprehension to the point of being better able to determine what the written page of music tells the performer, and, perhaps more importantly, what it does not. The studies have been progressively arranged in a manner designed to emphasize numerous specific musical problems associated with notation from the performer’s perspective, from the recognition of elementary musical structural components such as motives, phrases, (including melodic outlines) cadences, and meter, to the concept of overall musical architecture, usually presented in song forms. It should also be noted that the actual notation of the music in these studies has its own purpose, in accordance with an old dictum of 20th Century composer and performer, Leonard Bernstein, paraphrased here as follows:"Sometimes the music sounds the same as it looks, sometimes it looks different but it sounds the same, and sometimes it looks the same but it sounds different!" Thomas Stevens, Los Angeles, 1997
- Composed
- 1997
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 65
- Publisher
- Editions Bim

Thomas Stevens (1938-2018)
Thomas Stevens (born 1938, Atascadero, California) was appointed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1965 by then music director, Zubin Mehta, who named him principal trumpet in 1972, a position he held through 1999. He was concurrently involved as an educator in the U.S. and various international venues, including stints as a member... Read moreWe also recommend

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