Solo & Ensemble

[Babette]

I'm doing a solo, flute quartet, and woodwind choir. I only have my music for my solo though. It's called Sicilienne and it's by Gabriel Faure`. I can play it, but I'm not real sure about it yet.

[G'townPIT]

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Playing Buegler's holiday in a trio.

 

for our post uil/boa concert we're play bugler's holiday with 3 bassoons and band accompanying us. you just read the trumpet part in tenor clef and it works out pretty sweet.

[itsstephenyo]

k i figured out that im doing Dubois Concerto on alto sax... for now i told my lesson teacher that i'd learn only third movement but now im kinda thinking over learning all of it... thatd be insanely hard tho... 18 minutes of really difficult solo literature

 

 

edit: i think our sax quartet (actually a quintet for this piece) is doing flight of the bumblebee. haha its actually a pretty good arrangement for it.

[TRtrumpet]

Were doing a pretty easy trumpet trip. I think its called "3 of a kind" or somethin like that... lol. Our director wouldnet let us do a class one cus our 3rd trumpet is a french horn tryin to play a trumpet. We didnt have any other high school trumpets besides me and another girl. I doin a class one solo though.

[bariphonium]

3 of a Kind is an easy trio. I did that a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it. Your 3rd trumpet shouldn't too hard of a time.

[TRtrumpet]

Yea I though it was pretty easy to, lol but its a fun song. Hmm were still looking for a good sax quartet song. Anyone know any good ones?

[itsstephenyo]

dubois quatour is a really really quartet. somewhat difficult but sounds really awesome. hit me up if u want a recording of it.

[TRtrumpet]

Can you send it to me?

[HashBrownJM]

Shepherd's Hey by Grainger

 

It looks like it'll be crazy challenging and fun.

 

By the way, it's been a while since I've been on the site (haven't been able to design graphics since I had some... computer troubles), but the site is shaping up to be something awesome! How's everyone else doing/feeling about the site's improvements?

[HashBrownJM]

  Fortisimo said:

I would love to get three other trumpets (or just other brass instruments) and perform a contrapunctus from Bach's Art of Fugue....

Oh, if you do anything, do Contrapunctus IX. My friends and myself got that about three weeks before S & E last year, and we still got a 1. I'm not saying it's really easy, but man, it is a total blast to play. The last chord... ::drool::

[PrideOfPearland]

I'm doing Selanka Pastorale by Zdenko Fibich. as my solo. (B flat clarinet)

[PrideOfPearland]

  HashBrownJM said:

Shepherd's Hey by Grainger

 

It looks like it'll be crazy challenging and fun.

 

By the way, it's been a while since I've been on the site (haven't been able to design graphics since I had some... computer troubles), but the site is shaping up to be something awesome! How's everyone else doing/feeling about the site's improvements?

Shepard's Hey is fun! I played the full band version in 7th grade with my symphonic band. Its mucho fun!

[Xukaniz]

Solo:

Haydn - Concerto in Eb

 

Ensemble Wise....

 

Bugler's Holiday

[TRtrumpet]

Buglers Holiday seems popular.

[bored2damax]

Um i play a baritone and i might do a solo between Minuet-Scherzo by Joseph De Luca if it is on the list . If it is not on the list im probably going to play Beautiful Colorado (Valse Caprice) by Joseph De Luca. Wow that was kind of ironic, i didnt even notice till now that both solos were written by the same composer. thats just really weird.

[Xukaniz]

Its a very popular trumpet trio, but you need 3 excellent ones to pull it off.

[TRtrumpet]

Well me and my section leader are totally up for it, but were the only high school trumpeters.... the rest are crappy junior high.

[Keyboard_Countessa]

We finally got our ensemble music this week.

 

"Fugue in G" by Bach.

 

It's an all-mallet ensemble, and I get to play vibes.

[artishard]

for solo, i'm either playing Concertino for Horn by Carl Maria von Weber, or Sonata for Horn by Bernard Heiden[really contemporary in contrast to the rest of the french horn music..] and they're both extremely hard songs to play well.my lessons teacher is getting me En Foret just for fun sometime soon, maybe i'll play it next year : ]

[davidpowell]

The Heiden sonata is HARD to play all the way through, pretty high tessitura. Personally, the 3rd movement is one of my favorite things ever.

 

I, an ohioan, am playing Villanelle for our solo and ensemble contest. Gotta' get my high chops workin' again after I get my low ones in shape for 4th horn at all state. Sheesh.

[sax5warrior]

for solo im playing "Three Latin Moods" and for ensemble its "Prelude and Fugue"

[Trumpet Master]

My Mariachi did Bugler's Holyday last year for our End of the Year Concert.

The "Holy-day" thing is an injoke at my school, because our music actually says that. lol

[iplayband07]

I'm either doing Concert Etude or the Haydn Concerto in Eb.

most likely the 1st movement of the haydn

 

and i'm doing the Canadian Brass arrangement of Fugue in G minor in a brass quintet.

[rebelhorn07]

for solo I'm doing Villanelle by Dukas

and for ensemble I'm doing Quintet for Woodwinds by Cheetham

[Aegis Fang]

I'm going to do Song of Pines for my solo (class 1) and also gonna do Bugler's Holiday.