[Trombone-l] Nelybel tuba etudes- fictional situation

[Dennis Clason]

If your husband's picking Nehlybel because he sounds Eastern European, 
he should know that VN emigrated to the US in 1957 and is primarily 
known as a US composer of wind band music.  I wouldn't find it very 
believable that an emigre Russian would use the Nehlybel etudes, nor 
that a British teacher would use them.  This is especially true if the 
action is taking place in the UK.

I think Blazevich is much more likely, or Bordogni down the octave.  
Both were in fairly wide use at that time (at least among trombone 
students, tuba students were poaching music where ever it could be 
found, but then so were trombone students.)  Arban's is another very 
likely possibility.

The stuff I've seen on the 'net give a copyright date of 2006 for the 
Nehlybel etudes, which means that in 1987 she would have been playing 
them in manuscript.  They're listed as grade 4, and the samples look 
like about a 4+.  So the music is at the right difficulty level for an 
ambitious talented student with a good teacher.

Jackie Harris-Stone wrote:
> My husband's novel is now including a young tuba student.  He has her playing a Nelhybel tuba etude.  She's about 11, has played for 2-3 years, and has quite a lot of talent and practices a lot. She was taught by a Russian for a year or two, and then a British teacher took over.  This occured about 1987.  
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> I gave him some suggestions of what she would be playing- I thought Blazhevich, perhaps Bordogni-, but for some reason, he found the Nelhybel etudes on the internet, and thought it would be a better fit.
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> Does anyone know of these, and would they fit the above scenario?  If not, and you were writing the novel, what do you think might she be playing for etudes?
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> Trombone content- almost every trombone teacher teaches tuba students, and us bass trombonists play tuba etudes.
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Dennis L. Clason, Ph.D.
University Statistics Center
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico