blazevich and kopprasch

[TonyTuba]

Actually, I like the Tyrell book the most...but of the two, I like Blaz.

[JB]

blazevich & kopprasch

Different books; different origins (and for different instruments originally). I like both equally well, but for different uses most times.

Check out http://www.public.asu.edu/~jqerics/orig ... prasch.htm for lots of good background on Kopprasch.

For Blazhevitch, see below.

Vladislav Mikhailovich Blazhevitch (1881-1942)
[excerpted from http://www.tuba.org.ru/index.php?english]
I can't resist the pleasure of reproducing here the musician's autobiography dating from the 1930s that I unearthed in the V. M. Blazhevitch Collection at the Glinka Museum in Moscow:
"I, Vladislav Mikhailovitch Blazhevitch, was born in 1881 in the Smolensk region, state of Katyn, town of Trigoubovka. My father, of noble ancestry, was condemned to twenty years of hard labor after he was denounced by the pope for having participated in political acts. My mother was a commoner by heritage. Having lost my father in 1881, I was orphaned at the age of six months. My father's side of the family took me in. When I was twelve, I was sent for an education with the army band of the 3rd Artillery Brigade of the city of Smolensk, where I remained until I was 18. Since I wanted very much to get an advanced music education, I made my way, after a great deal of difficulty, to the city of Moscow, where I was engaged as a civilian musician in the Grenadier Regiment of Astrakhane. I stayed there until 1900, when I entered the trombone class of professor Bork at the National Conservatory in Moscow. I finished in 1905 with the title of "free artist". In 1906 I won an audition for the Bolschoi Academic Theater, where I worked for 22 years. In 1920 I was invited to teach at the National Conservatory in Moscow, where I remain to this day." Vladislav M. Blazhevitch taught trombone and tuba at this institution from 1920 to 1942, the year he died. A veritable monument to brass playing in Russia, he was the author of many pedagogical works and composer of concertante works for trombone, tuba and wind band that to this day have lost none of their value, still capturing the interest of musicians and students. His role in the development of wind bands in Russia is inestimable. His many students (e.g. Mitine, Sokolovsky, Lechtchinsky, who worked at the Bolschoi) were to occupy important positions in the orchestras of the former USSR. He was incontestably one of the foundations of the Russian (Soviet) School of trombone and tuba.

[JB]

i need to play one for a critique in a couple of weeks... just wondering which study you guys found to be fun to learn, and musical.

Kopprasch: (to a degree, listed in order of increasing challenges)
3
11
14
17
20
27
41
55
57

Blazevich: (also, to a degree, listed in order of increasing challenges)
2
9
11
15
18
29
30
35
39
44
62
69