Anyone play classical stuff on their whistles?
Loads of pieces as midi from
http://www.classicalarchives.com/index.html
Wonder what Sarabande sounds like on low D 
It’s on the Handel page - nice.
Recently I’ve been playing Gregorian Chant on mine. It’s very nice.
Interesting.
I’ve found that certain Bach and Mozart songs sound very nice on the whistle, along with some of the earlier composers… (Medieval period through Renaissance)
Anyone know of a good source on the Internet for FREE sheetmusic for the classics. I’m also interested in hymns sheetmusic, but can’t find even that.
Ya, and I would like to add to the request.
Free sheet music that offer parts to it.
Where can I find it?
Whistle played in parts is purty!
On 2002-11-12 18:49, E = Fb wrote:
Anyone know of a good source on the Internet for FREE sheetmusic for the classics. I’m also interested in hymns sheetmusic, but can’t find even that.
Most of the classical music I like is too chromatic for the whistle. For hymns, why not just get a hymnal? They’re usually pretty cheap.
Minuet in G is wonderful and
great practice, too.
I do a fair amount of Bach
and some Mozart. Sheep may
safely graze, works fine.
Stuff from the Magic Flute, too.
(Finally we can’t let half holing
stop us, can we?)
(Finally we can’t let half holing
stop us, can we?)
“Flight of the Bumblebee” would be an interesting exercise in half-holing.
I had an old 78 rpm of Harry James trying to play Bumblebee on the trumpet. You could tell he was just fluttering the keys instead of playing the individual notes. However, as I recall, it became pretty popular.
[Edited to add the emoticon, or whatever it’s called.]
[ This Message was edited by: Ridseard on 2002-11-12 22:30 ]
I went to Google.com, typed in “download classical sheet music free” without the quotation marks, and got a whole buncha promising sites.
http://www.music-scores.com/
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/Welcome.html
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/new.great.music.html
http://www.freesheetmusicguide.com/classical.htm
http://www.freesheetmusic.net/
Anything else? At work, I’m pretty much the queen of the web search. Ya just gotta know where to look and how to ask.
Marguerite
First movement of Fur ELise works pretty good w/halfholing. From then on it’s out of range.Gm
I can vouch for Music-Scores.com… I’m one of their Private Discussion group members, and probably the only Irish Whistler/Classical musician on the board…
Good music.
Musica-Viva is also a good site; his Music Workshop is wonderful for getting pre-transposed parts for any ensemble you want.
When you say classical stuff, do you mean the composers like Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven? Or do you mean most anything from the past. Because, so far, people have mentioned Gregorian, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical. Which is interesting, because no one mentioned the Romantic period, or later.
On 2002-11-13 01:13, JohnPalmer wrote:
When you say classical stuff, do you mean the composers like Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven? Or do you mean most anything from the past. Because, so far, people have mentioned Gregorian, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical. Which is interesting, because no one mentioned the Romantic period, or later.
I doubt whether any 20th century composer would have written for the whistle. Being a (more or less) diatonic instrument makes it hard. Imagine trying to play 12 tone music on whistle.
I’ve played very dissonant 20th century style pieces on whistle, but pieces I’ve written myself. You can start with a mode, Say D mixolydian, and you don’t have to employ very many notes not in the scale for the whole to sound dissonant. Just place them in important places from time to time and just a few will work very well. I’d be unlikely to write out a whistle part however. I might write out a piano part with lots of clusters and other ‘modern’ devices and just improvise a whistle part that fits.
On 2002-11-13 01:13, JohnPalmer wrote:
When you say classical stuff, do you mean the composers like Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven? Or do you mean most anything from the past. Because, so far, people have mentioned Gregorian, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical. Which is interesting, because no one mentioned the Romantic period, or later.
I think the term “classical”, as commonly used, is a subjective musical classification, roughly equivalent to “high-brow” and “long-hair”. Thus it could include renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, 20 century, and whatever. Blues, folk, jazz, country, rock? Well, these have been incorporated into the “classical” genre by such giants as Dvorak, Gershwin, and Copeland, to name a few; so the classification is vague and impossible to delineate precisely.
Music in the romantic era became increasingly chromatic, and the chromaticism gradually evolved into atonal music, which is “un-diatonic” to the extreme, and therefore whistle-unfriendly.
However, one of my favorite 20th century “classical” composers is Alan Hovhaness, who relies a lot on the traditional modes. I wonder whether the “Prayer of St. Gregory” would work on a whistle. Wishful thinking, maybe, and it would probably ruin it. Whistles probably work better with music written for organ or woodwinds rather than brass instruments.
I mentioned Gregorian, not because I think it’s classical, but because it’s old and interesting and that seemed relevant. Another nice feature is that there is a lot of modal variety but all of the notes are easy to play on the whistle–best of both worlds! The only occasional problem is the range. Well, it’s also true that many chants are just no good if not sung.
If looking for hymns, let’s not forget to plug our very own Walden, who has a website devoted in part to just that.
All the Best, Tom