BO BLAZHEVICH EERO OK tt STUDIES IN CLEFS FOR TROMBONE (OSTRANDER) No. 1623 & x g 5 i H a A : : g H 5 x SPEC CREO R CROCCO ROD HR RRR ¢ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPANY 3 NEW YORK DRC OOOOH ROO OOOO ROO OOO OO OR OR EEEVladislav Mikhailovich Blazhevitch (1881-1942) 1 cant 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: "r, Vladislav Mikhailovtch Blazhevitch, was born in 1881 in the Smolensk region, state of Katyn, town of Trigoubovka. My father, fof 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 Artilery Brigade of the city of Smolensk, where I remained until 1 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 ivllan musician in the Grenadier Regiment of Astrakhane. I stayed there unt 1900, when T entered the trombone ‘ass 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.” Viadislay 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, stil 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 Bolscho)) 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.STUDIES IN CLEFS TROMBONE Edited by ALLEN OSTRANDER VLADISLAV BLAZHEVICH EXERCISES IN POSITIONS (ass1-19) Pos. 1 62a Copyright ©1957 hy International Masi Company, New York. Copyright RenewedWw bv 10% 4 CELT-lettt pos, Although the comporer has written the first 34 of hie tudies with progressive use of postions, I feel that any student advanced enough to use this book should make ue of alternate positions Wherever possible. I have marked auch positions in parenthese. 1623 ‘THE DITOR2 poco rall. na uct per. JJ 16.2 np B[-ILML-IV-V pos, 4 22, BE afats eI = SEE es poco rit, init ty ae re. es 25] a ae Ee Bettetit-tV-V-V1 pos. by od _ + = 26 FE = = Ee[-I-II-IV-V-VI-VIt pos. 30.B SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS ome ae of. fe, ste = : ==] 5 Amino: _ Elodie) >= ‘y == Bert ees WY LONE Arpesgios © major EXERCISES FOR ALL SEVEN POSITIONS Moderato 4 35.Moderato 2 37. poco a poco crese.45 9. cantabile F major yee Le ttt .o ar re = ; 45. Te, >Allegro 19 7 sempre staccato gaa ane eat ——— ao 22.5.0 =Saaee — ie Aspeggioe re ee dette be. 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(Pag ont ace Pap emo ee i + ~ ‘poco ral, — A Pg 1 = ape < oa t + aS ae i ieAllegro 103. 2A fftes petae epee Pg ee “Sesieeeee ee feos ne SS "P poco calandomajor * SS YF Sra Ne ee apceion 5 fe» m rato : papa aS ea Dy minor (Melodte) SF wr LS De mince (Harmonic) FS soe eet = = f pera ea Anciis _g4 rit, ‘Tempo I z7(Except where marked, play all octaves in the same position.) 8 ete te 29 tt oe = SS Sea re roco rall, ote