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NEWS (July 2010)

Balquhidder Music is enjoying its 20th year of operation. We’ve published over 100 titles of all sorts of music for brass – teaching materials and chamber music. We’ve seen technology change enormously to allow such a small operation as ours do so many things – and we have benefited from a good relationship with Carl Fischer Music which handles our distribution to stores and dealers, worldwide. We are happy to serve orders from schools or individuals right here in this website (go to the Catalog page).



Three New Items available this month:

Ave Maria, by César Alejandro Carrillo
edited by Rob Roy McGregor for Trumpet Choir (BQ-115)

Sonata 3 for Trumpet and Piano
by John Prescott (BQ-114)

Renaissance Duets for Two Trumpets
edited by W. Jonathan Gresham (BQ-116)

Coming soon:

Magma, for Five Trumpets
by Britton Theurer (BQ-117)

Nordic Suite, for brass quintet
by Nick Lane (BQ-118)

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1/9/2006
ERRATA:

BQ-2 McGregor: Audition and Performance, Vol. 2, 1997 Edition: page 70, fourth line, 4th measure (the first in Cut Time), second note should be B-flat, not B-natural.

BQ-3 McGregor: Audition and Performance, Vol. 3, 2005 Edition: page 16, third measure after #127, second note of second trumpet should be C-sharp, not C-natural. On page 70, fifth line, first measure, the second trumpet part has some rogue sixteenth rests printed – take them out – the rhythm should look exactly like the first part in the same measure.

BQ-13 Lillya: Trumpet Technic, page 37, in the Parsifal excerpt: there should be a slur marking from the very first note (E-flat) until the first note of the second line; in the fourth line, first measure, the B-flat half-note (beats 3 and 4) should be tied to the B-flat eighth note at the beginning of the next measure.

BQ-48 Lillya: Method for Trumpet and Cornet Book 2, page 37, line 4: the eighth note in the measure should be F-sharp, not F-natural. On page 39, in the second measure, that half-note should be a dotted half-note. On page 49, fourth full measure – the rest at the end of that bar should be a quarter rest, not an eighth rest.

BQ-51 Concone / Korak Complete Solfeggi for Trumpet, page 4: it should say Glossary of “Italian” terms, not “Foreign” terms.

BQ-59 McGregor: Daily Scale Builder for Trumpet, page 47, second line from the bottom, key signature for whole tone scale: delete the A-flat mark and add a C-sharp mark.

BQ-60 Purcell / McGregor: Sonata for Trumpet with Brass Quintet, In the last movement, the solo trumpet part is missing four different measures of rest: Measure #7, #39, #67 and #98 are lost in cyber-space in a way only a computer would know. A new part is being constructed to correct this anomaly.

BQ-64 Fricke: 104 Progressive Exercises, Vol 1., page 29, measure 35. The first note should be A-natural, not A-flat. Page 47, measure 23, trill on the second half note of the measure.

BQ-88 Cichowicz: Orchestra Excerpts for Trumpet with Piano Accompaniment.

Trumpet players must play from the Solo part in the transpositions that occur there. It does no good to learn the music from the piano part where the trumpet line is always written in concert pitch – you MUST know the transpositions because that is the music you will see at an audition and when you play in the orchestra.

Solo part, page 29, 5 measures after #141, the last note should be written B-flat, not C. Piano part, page 65, fourth measure after #141, beats two and three should be A-flat, not B-flat and in the next measure (fifth after #141) the first and last notes of the measure should be A-flats and not B-flats.

If anyone finds more, please let us know. Listing them will help everyone and will help us prepare a better subsequent printing.

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A Runner’s Fanfare, duet for two trumpets or horns, by Rob Roy McGregor
Composed for and performed at the opening of the Los Angeles Marathon 2002

Trumpet Talk for Teachers, by Clifford Lillya, © ITG 1979 reprinted by permission.

Clifford Lillya was an exceptionally gifted teacher who built up a wonderful studio at the University of Michigan over a thirty-two year span. Highly intuitive and creative, he was concise and precise in his use of language and imagery. In this talk he outlines in unusual detail his concepts and applications of his teaching methods. Made available here through the generosity of the International Trumpet Guild.

In Defense of the Polka, by Clifford Lillya, Journal of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Assoc., ca. 1955.

In this short piece, Lillya comments on the evolving solo repertoire for the intermediate trumpet player, discussing the pros and cons and citing a timely warning to teachers about projecting their own needs upon those of their students.

Young Trumpeter’s Guide, by Jean Moorehead Libs
RECOMENDATIONS FOR BEGINNING BAND METHODS AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS FOR STUDY.

A Guided Tour of Clifford Lillya's Trumpet Technic, by Rob Roy McGregor

For those who did not have the opportunity to study directly with Clifford Lillya, this short guide to Trumpet Technic (BQ-13) is meant to help get the most out of this wonderful book.

Lillya put this material together shortly after coming to the University of Michigan in 1947 as a syllabus for his students. It acts as the hub of a wheel tying together a wide variety of other practice materials. It also contains an introduction to transposition with many orchestral excerpts and a generous helping of solo and ensemble literature.

It was first published in 1952 by Carl Fischer Music, Inc. In 1995, Rob Roy McGregor (Balquhidder Music) and Dennis Horton (Elan Brass Impressions), under Lillya's guidance, revised, augmented and re-published the book. For a full description of the contents, click on Lillya, Trumpet Technic in the catalog.