Reginald Smith Brindle News
British composer
- guitar, piano, clarinet, saxophone, pipe organ
- opera, classical music
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- writer, composer, classical guitarist
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2014-06-21 21:48:08
Music Journal #1- Fun With the Omnibus Progression
[…] simplicity’s sake (and because there’s no tonality governing which pitches “need” to appear in each sonority) I kept the inner voices oblique while moving the soprano and bass in opposing directions by half step: There does seem to be a subtle natural propulsion to this chordal sequence owing to the strong outer voice motion. However, I know a number of prominent composer/authors who would wag their fingers about “dissonance flow” issues (Persichetti, Hindemtih, Smith Brindle, etc). Since I’ve purposely avoided a tonal frame of reference, I decided to think of some other ways I could move voices to keep things interesting. Also, I took the opportunity to impose more conscious control over dissonance flow: Note the outer voices retain the essential “wedge” relationship. The tenor voice is allowed to gradually rise and the alto voice to, more or less, descend (the inner voices being […]
2013-07-18 00:30:14
Happy 80th Birthday Julian Bream!
[…] himself and obviously had great success in this And, importantly for me, he holds the belief that as guitarists, as musicians, as people we should refrain from taking ourselves too seriously! What a fantastic career he shaped for himself and what a fantastic legacy he has created for the classical guitar too. There have been around 25 pieces that were written specifically for Bream, these include (thanks to Wikipedia for the list): Reginald Smith Brindle Nocturne for Guitar Solo (1946) Reginald Smith Brindle El Polifemo de Oro (1956) Lennox Berkeley Sonatina, op. 52, no. 1 (1957) Tristram Cary Sonata (1959) Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, op. 67 (1959) Benjamin Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70 (1963) Richard Rodney Bennett Impromptus (1968) Tom Eastwood Ballade-Phantasy (1968) Peter Racine Fricker Paseo (1969) Reginald Smith Brindle Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970) Richard Rodney […]
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