{"id":5216,"date":"2016-02-12T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:26:26","slug":"weekend-picks-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post some weekend picks for you. Here are some random music-related sites for you to browse this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you like brass band music? Do you like drinking? If you like both, you probably would love Serbias Gu\u010da Trumpet Festival<\/a>. The Draga\u010devo Sabor Trubaca brings in more than half a million people to a small village in Serbia for a wild weekend of brass bands and drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is believed this Balkan brass tradition emerged in the early 20th century, around the time Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, and Bulgaria formed the Balkan League to battle the Ottoman Empire in 1912. \u201cDuring the Balkan Wars, and then during World War I, military bands came through the area, playing mostly brass instruments,\u201d Smith says. \u201cThese instruments were adopted by the Balkans, who created brass versions of pre-existing folk songs. In Serbia in particular, they embraced brass music to the extent that they consider it their national style of music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about it in A Frenzy of Trumpets: Why Brass Musicians Can’t Resist Serbia’s Wildest Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are studying aural skills or teaching ear training it’s nice to have a repertory of familiar songs to help you recognize intervals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although some may have changed since this article was posted in 2013, it gives you some practical advice for dealing with flying with your musical instrument<\/a>. As always, check ahead when traveling with your instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, remember to Be Like Bill. See more of Bill here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post some weekend picks for you. Here are some random music-related sites for you to browse this weekend. Do you like brass band music? Do you like drinking? If you like both, you probably would love Serbias Gu\u010da Trumpet Festival. The Draga\u010devo Sabor Trubaca brings in more than … Continue reading Weekend Picks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1362,1364,1367,1376,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brass","category-composition","category-ear-training","category-humor","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-1m8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8543,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}