Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] [*YPC-#3 26 Mar '60*] Unusual Instr ORK-Little Train Now that charming little piece is by the famous Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos; and, as you must have guessed, it's a musical picture of a…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 2 The kind you whirl around when you want to make a real racket on New Year's Eve ; Ex. And finally Villa-Lobos uses a Reco-reco, which is a saw-toothed sort of…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 3 [Or listen to the kettledrum, the timpany, playing in a way that doesn't sound like a drum at all. Timp: tiem. & gliss. up.] [Now all this is just to show…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 4 You see, that thin whistle-sound comes from playing the regular violin way up as high as it can go, [sound], + by having mutes placed on the strings to make the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 5 [Now the] So you see, most of these peculiar noises are really caused by the regular instruments of the orchestra; those unusual percussion things we heard before are only sort of…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 6 For instance, take our modern clarinet cl - 1 note and oboe ob - 1 note These two instruments are very much alike, because they are both long tubes of wood…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 7 language lessons in Carnegie Hall; but it's important to know all this because the French chalumeau finally [became] grew into what we know as the clarinet, (play) and the English shawm,…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 8 and three old trombones, which were then called [*Enter*] sackbuts. Here they come. (Pause) Aren't they beautiful instruments? Hold them up, so we can see them better. They'd be beautiful just…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 9 11 or 14 or 17 when you suddenly realize that there has been a big & interesting world going on for thousands of years before you were in it; & from…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 1 Talk 11 Train 4 Gabr 4 Shawmas 2 21 2 Talk 4 Bach 6
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 10 shawm, [or an oboe or clarinet] only without a reed in the mouthpiece. (Show) These recorder kind of flutes have a very different sound from modern flutes — much softer and…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 11 No - it’s been around for 100 years, even before jazz was invented. The mellophone you hear in school bands? No - that's just another kind of French horn. No, the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 12 There are two ways of putting sound on tape; one is by recording real sounds, like a bottle breaking, — crash, tinkle, tinkle -- and then play it backwards, [*Some other…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 13 ORK 10' Wow! I feel as though I've been on a space ship somewhere around the moon — don't you? That [really t] music really takes us into the future. At…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 14 a lovely voice, named Anita Darien. (Enters) She will perform with us the last movement of a special concerto for Kazoo & orchestra [or I guess it's really Concerto for a…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
About this Item
Title
- Young People's Concerts Scripts: Unusual Instruments [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
Names
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
Created / Published
- March 27, 1960.
Headings
- - Villa-Lobos: The Little Train
- - Unusual instruments
- - The Ganza
- - The Chocalhos
- - The Raganella
- - The Reco-reco
- - Glissando
- - The Clarinet and oboe
- - Reeds
- - The Shawm
- - The Cornetto
- - The Sackbut
- - Gabrieli: Canzone for Eight Instruments
- - History
- - Recorders
- - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4"
- - Electronic instruments
- - The Theremin
- - Ondes Martinot
- - Tape recording
- - Artificial sound
- - Pure tone
- - Luening and Ussachevsky: Concerto for Tape-Recorder and Orchestra
- - The Kazoo
- - Darian, Anita
- - Bucci: Concerto for a Singing Instrument
- - Teachers
- - Young People's Concerts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - Location: Box/Folder 106/07.
- - From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series.
- - For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
- - Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
Medium
- 15 (14 numbered pages + verso pg. 9) pages.; 8" x 12.5"
Call Number/Physical Location
- ML31 .B49
Source Collection
- Leonard Bernstein collection, circa 1900-1995
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2023778397
Rights Advisory
- For rights information relating to this resource, visit http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/lbcoll.access
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Subject
- Artificial Sound
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
- Bucci: Concerto for a Singing Instrument
- Darian, Anita
- Electronic Instruments
- Gabrieli: Canzone for Eight Instruments
- Glissando
- History
- Luening and Ussachevsky: Concerto for Tape-Recorder and Orchestra
- Manuscripts
- Ondes Martinot
- Pure Tone
- Recorders
- Reeds
- Tape Recording
- Teachers
- The Chocalhos
- The Clarinet and Oboe
- The Cornetto
- The Ganza
- The Kazoo
- The Raganella
- The Reco-Reco
- The Sackbut
- The Shawm
- The Theremin
- Unusual Instruments
- Villa-Lobos: The Little Train
- Young People's Concerts