Rehearsal References

UPDATE:  Check out 19:10 and 19:30 in the Horns vs measures 172-173 in Cowboys.

Here is a link to Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth"

This will make a good listen on a quiet cold night.

Rehearsal in the Round

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What did you think?

Did it help you hear new things?

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Rehearsal 2/10/15

Hi All,
  On Tuesday we will run the entire program.  With a break next week this will give us a good look at where we are and what work we still need to do.  After that, we only have 8 more rehearsals before the concert on May 3rd.

Stay warm.

Ken

Rehearsal References

Here is a citation for the early instrumentation I mentioned.

INSTRUMENTATION AND THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BAND CONTEST

In the United States, instrumentation was particularly inconsistent in early school bands. After the initial National School Band Contest in 1923, discussion ensued during subsequent years to address this problem so as to provide a working standard for all band programs interested in entering the contest. In 1927 the School Band Contests booklet listed the following acceptable instrumentation for a 68-piece band:

2 flutes or 4 piccolos    (interchangeable) 2 E-flat clarinets 2 oboes 1 English horn 24 B-flat clarinets 2 alto clarinets 1 bass clarinet 2 alto saxophones    (or 1 sop., 1 alto) 1 tenor saxophone 1 baritone saxophone   1 bass saxophone 2 bassoons

2 B-flat cornets 2 B-flat trumpets 2 B-flat fluegelhorns 4 French horns 3 trombones 2 baritones 2 E-flat tubas 2 B-flat tubas timpani drums

http://www.lipscomb.edu/windbandhistory/rhodeswindband_11_instrumentation.htm

Charter members of American Bandmasters Association: Edwin Franko Goldman; Charles Benter, J. J. Gagnier, Victor J. Grabel, Albert Austin Harding, Richard B. Hayward, Charles O'Neill, Arthur Pryor and Frank Simon.

Rehearsal 2/3/15

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait wait 15 minutes. ~ Mark Twain

Hi all,
  While we all are either loving or hating the snow and cold I hope we can agree on one thing - I cant wait for rehearsal on Tuesday.  Tuesdays are my favorite day of the week because I get to make music with you folks.

Rehearsal on Tuesday will include:


On a Hymnsong of Philip  Bliss - We will work on melodic direction and dynamics

Cowboys - I want to continue the articulation work we began last time.  Please look at my previous post regarding sixteenth notes (Biddy Biddy Bop)

Resplendent Glory


Keep Practicing.  See you Tuesday

Ken


(Could be worse)

Biddy Biddy Bops

Hi all,
  Happy Snowpocalypse!  With Plainville schools being closed tomorrow, and the world coming to the end, we wont have practice tomorrow.  May you all have sufficient quantities of milk and bread.  (Because the stores are out)

Last week, as we worked on Cowboys, there were many spots of 8th and 16ths or 16th and 8ths that should sound like a run of just 16ths.  Some of the parts are not divided so it is sometimes hard to tell if it should be all 16ths.  Below is a list of the spots that should be played as all 16ths if you are able.

Measures       Beats       Who
1                                       Tpt 1, Horns 1-4
6                                         "          "
10                     1&2         Cl 1-3, AS, TS
19                     1&2         Cl 2-3, AS, TS
23                     1&2         Cl 2-3
24-25                                Cl 2-3, AS, TS
27                     1              Cl 2-3, AS, TS
31 & 33            1-3           Bsn, Cl, Sax, BH, Tub
84 & 86            1-3           Bsn, Cl, Sax, BH, Tub
92 & 94            1-3           Cl 2-3, AS, TS
97                     1-2           Cl 2-3, AS, TS
98                                     Cl 2-3, AS, TS
99                     1-2           Cl 2-3, AS, TS
100 & 103                        Cl 2-3, AS, TS
106                                   Cl 2-3, AS
109                   1-2           Tpt 2-3, Horns
113                                   Tpt 1, Horns
118                   1-2           Tpt 1, Horn 1&3
119                   1-2           Tpt 2, Horn 2&4
196                   1-3           Bsn, Cl, Sax, BH
198                   1-3           Picc, Fl, Ob, Bsn, Cl, Sax, BH, Tub
202 & 204        1-3           Bsn, Cl, AS, TS, BH
207                   1-2           Bsn, Cl, AS, TS, BH
209                   3-4           Bsn, Cl, AS, TS, BH
217 & 218                        Tpt, Horn
238 - 241                          Picc, Fl, CL1-3
250 & 252        1-3          Cl, AS, TS, Tpt 2
259                   1-2          Tpt 2&3, Horn
263                                  Tpt, Horn
267                   1-3          ALL
268                   2-3          ALL

For all of these spots, if you are able, play 4 16th notes instead of 8th and 2 16ths. (or 2 16ths and 8th)

Random rehearsal references

Sometimes, or more than sometimes, I make random references in rehearsal.  Here are a couple of links to more recent referrals.  Enjoy.


ROBIN WILLIAMS "Come inside my mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe--XXB8Mqc






JOHN BELUSHI Dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Gt7Oiczf8