Helmut Schwaiger

A treasure of gold for harmony music found!

Austrian National Library hoards largest collection of harmony music In search of unknown, high-quality music for harmony music, Heinz Prammer found an extensive collection for this genre from the collection of the “Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Kapelle” in the Austrian National Library. It quickly became clear to him the dimension that this

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What’s the beatbox doing in the string orchestra?

What’s a beatbox? This is a “percussion line” which imitates a drum kit with mouth, nose and throat. Beatboxing is often equated with vocal percussion, but strictly speaking it only describes a special form of it developed in hip-hop. Lauren Bernofsky used in her composition “7th Street Beat” a “Beatbox

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Concertband music and choir or choir and Concertband music ?

No matter how you feel about it, the wind music and the choir is an “in instrumentation”. In many places the choir communities get together with the orchestras and create attractive concerts. In fact, there are surprisingly many arrangements for this genre, ranging from classical to popular. Here we present

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