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1coasterb
Mar 23, 2007, 12:15 am

List your instrument and the favorite piece you played on it, individual or group.

Baritone/Euphonium - Mars concert band style

Piano - Fur Elise

2StanShebs
Mar 28, 2007, 10:58 am

Flute - take lessons and manage to play for about an hour each day (who needs tv :) ). Working on Hindemith's sonata right now.

Favorite piece? If I had to pick one, it would be Bach's B-minor sonata.

3mmhorman
mayo 1, 2007, 3:56 pm

I play the Violin and Viola and also sing

My favorite Violin piece is Beethoven's Spring Sonata and my favorite for Viola is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto # 6. My favorite Vocal work is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

4paperpusher
Editado: Mar 31, 2008, 11:51 pm

I play keyboard and I find I've got just enough technique to play some of the Bach chorales. I am working on #104, 108, and 110. My favorite of these pieces is #10, "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir." Which means "Out of deep distress I cry to you."
Just to pick some favorite pieces at random: Verdi's Requiem, Bach's Sonata for Solo Flute.

5clong
Ene 29, 2008, 6:01 pm

I used to play French Horn, but gave it up many, many years ago. But I work in the orchestra world, as a manager.

6cliquegirl Primer Mensaje
Ene 29, 2008, 6:15 pm

I play the alto saxophone and have been for 2 years, I play in a jazz band and school band.I would have to say my favorite piece is "eye of the tiger".

7barney67
Ene 29, 2008, 6:25 pm

Used to play classical guitar in college. Not very well.

I enjoyed the Vivaldi trio I was in.

8WholeHouseLibrary
Ene 29, 2008, 7:29 pm

Percussion. That's me -- the fellow who hung around with musicians.

I've since switched over to guitar, and found I have a knack for stringed instruments. I'm fairly okay with the mandolin and 2 types of banjos, and could actually play a sitar fairly well (20+ years ago). I can also handle the violin, viola, cello, harp and balalaika, but wouldn't go so far as to say I can play them well.

9BarbN
Mar 1, 2008, 2:18 pm

Flutist here. I play as often as I can; a lot of chamber music, flute choir, concert band--whatever I can fit in versus the demands of my day job.

A single favorite piece? Right now I would probably pick the CPE Bach A minor unaccompanied sonata; ask me tomorrow and the answer might be very different.

10Joles
mayo 11, 2008, 1:02 pm

I play pretty much everything but my favorite is the Bassoon. I can't say I have a favorite (I have some that I HATE.) I like anything with a good bassoon line!

I do love the Lord of the Rings Symphony by Johan de Meij. Great double reed writing!

11aviddiva
mayo 11, 2008, 7:46 pm

Professionally, my voice is my instrument, but I mess around (with varying levels of success) with the piano, guitar, banjo, violin and recorder. It's too hard to pick a favorite piece, but I love singing Bach.

12saxhorn
Editado: Jul 8, 2008, 11:17 pm

My handle should be a hint for my instrument. I play euphonium and trombone. My current favorite playing is in a Civil War reenactment band. I arrange music and produce critical editions of historic pieces for wind band.

My favorite solos are: Paul Creston Fantasy for Trombone, and the Bourgeois Concerto for Euphonium.

My favorite pieces by instrument are: Hindemith Symphony in Bb (trombone), Holst Hammersmith (euphonium)

13paperpusher
Dic 14, 2008, 12:52 am

so evidently you learned the secret of a good embouchre and a
focussed tone. I tried for months and then switched to
clarinet. But the flute will always remain my first, unrequited
love.

14okapikid
Abr 15, 2009, 8:21 pm

I play viola. My favorite piece is either the 2nd or 4th movement of the Telemann Viola Concerto in G Major

15bumblesby
Ene 1, 2010, 12:01 pm

My first instrument was the Piano. Later in life I took up the cello and most recently the viola. I have played in a handbell choir - loved that. I have also sung quite a bit. I did get to play the cello a couple times in a community orchestra/choir annual concert. That was really fun. I am not very good, and the most of the music was fairly easy - for the cello anyway.

In the last year or so I have not played or sung anything. I used to attend a church with a vibrant and diversified music program. The church went through one of those phases when people start leaving, the new pastor was not working out and things fell apart. So sad. I don't have a venue to play anymore and therefore the motivation lingers. Also my belief structure or rather non-belief structure has changed dramatically.

I would say that strings are my favorite. You get an appreciation when you attempt to play an instrument.

16noreenj
Ene 3, 2010, 1:02 am

Cello and viola da gamba. I enjoy music written for multiple cellos.

17B.
Ene 1, 2011, 6:14 pm

I play guitar, and my favorite piece is a Tarrega prelude. Here's a decent recording of me playing it: http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=7250869

18Feurmann
Ene 4, 2011, 10:38 pm

I am an amateur cellist (fellow cellists will recognise my handle as a tribute to the great Emmanuel Feurmann.) I have been learning for eight years now. I have fantasies about learning violin, but if I can just barely cope with cello intonation, violin must be on another level of difficulty.

19varielle
Feb 1, 2011, 9:16 am

I was a piano player and have recently been trying to teach myself the mandolin. Unfortunately, stringed instruments seem to blow my mind and it doesn't sound very good so far.

20elenchus
Mar 9, 2011, 9:57 pm

I played clarinet several lifetimes ago, never very well. I loved playing Vaughan William's English Folk Song Suite, and uncannily enough ... it surfaced on my iTunes selections earlier this evening.

Haven't played in years, but the little time spent dramatically improved my appreciation of music and performance.

21Nevjinsky
Jul 22, 2012, 7:46 am

I play organ (I played piano) and like baroque music.

22Booksloth
Oct 14, 2012, 6:49 am

I'm trying to get a new group off the ground for people who play any instrument, sing, shake a bottle full of beans - basically any way of making their own music - ttp://www.librarything.com/groups/thankyouforthemusic. Please come along and join us.

23francis0404
Nov 22, 2012, 12:12 am

clarinet and saxophone

24HarryMacDonald
Dic 2, 2012, 11:35 am

IN RE #14. If you can find a copy, you might enjoy the considerable material about the viola in my HARMONY JUNCTION. Some might call this "shameless self-promotion", but I would like to think it's just sharing the love. Cheers, -- Goddard. PS: that Telemann Concerto is a dandy, no dount about it. I used to think that had I lived in those days, I might have composed like Telemann. Naturally, we would all like to have been as fine as JS Bach, Haendel, or even Vivaldi, but I would gag at the presumption!

25GoodKnight
Dic 6, 2012, 6:10 pm

I play the piano and my second instrument is the organ. On piano I love to play Brahms pieces. At the moment I am playing his Theme and Variations Op. 18 originally for string sextet but arranged for piano.

I also enjoy the contrapuntal music of Bach, Shostakovich and Hindemith. I'm now starting on Hindemith's 3rd Sonata in B flat.

On the organ Bach's music gives the greatest satisfaction. But I am also fascinated by Buxtehude and the French Baroque (Couperin, Marchand, de Grigny, Clerambault). I also enjoy playing the music of Jehan Alain, even if he is out of fashion at the moment.

26MarshaKT
Ene 2, 2013, 8:37 pm

Cello - love playing the Faure Elegie - and Saint Saens concerto.

Enjoying some really tough orchestral music - Mahler, Shostokovich, Bruckner!

Firt instrument was the accordion - my father wouldn't let me take up any insrument they could't put in the closet when I gave it up....problem is, I just kapt adding instruments.

27Sendiri
Sep 15, 2013, 12:49 am

Piano.

Favorite piece: Crumb's Five Pieces for Piano and Liszt's Dante Sonata.

28literarybuff
Editado: Jul 31, 2014, 11:19 pm

I play clarinet, usually in a concert band. I also take private lessons. In groups, I've enjoyed playing Shepherd's Hey (Grainger), Semper Fidelis (Sousa), and Dance of the Comedians (Smetana). As a soloist, I just finished working on C. M. von Weber's Concertino, and I'm just starting the 3rd movements of C. M. von Weber's Grand Duo Concertant and Concerto No. 1.

29defaults
Jul 17, 2016, 2:15 pm

- Guitar: played since my teens, self-taught; when I'm not working on my own music I enjoy making chord-melody arrangements of bossa nova, jazz and standards and my favorite might be one of Jaco Pastorius' "Three Views of a Secret".
- Classical baritone: I've studied for a few years now and advancing surprisingly fast considering I started in my thirties. My favorite songs to sing include Carl Loewe's "Der Nöck" (an absolute blast and check out Kurt Moll's recording), Ange Flégier's "Le son du cor" (an immortal song by a composer otherwise completely forgotten) and Schubert's "Daß sie hier gewesen".
- Bass clarinet: I finally got my hands on my dream instrument this year after a dip in the water with some lessons on the soprano. The first movement of Bach's fourth cello suite is what I'm having the most "wow, I'm making actual music with this thing" with.