The Marine Band used to do Deathtree every Easter. That stopped around 1996. The only things I remember from my first years in the band are listening to our since-retired principle tuba player Tom Lyckberg rip that piece a new one each and every time he played it.
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If it's Deathtree as in 2nd movement to David Holsinger's Easter Symphony you can get a recording of it via www.davidrholsinger.com or West Coast Music Service (now called Florida Music Service) at www.flmusicservice.com
Hope this helps.
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Nat'l Emblem is awesome, but I always like playing that part at Tubachristmas better (especially in Atlanta...).
Also, Hey Baby is mad fun.
Being from Atlanta, yeah, Bud is cool, especially when the whole stadium sings it. But it's got nothing to 20 tubas doing the hokie pokie for 65,115 Hokies in Blacksburg... We have a couple AWESOME tuba parts up here at Tech, and we've got a new CD coming out soon. I'll try to get some parts up to let ya'll hear it.
Gotta throw in Flourish for Wind Band, and the last movement of Pineapple Pole (I think it's the last one...).
And even though I'm not real big on FSU, as a devout Braves fan, I have to say that I bet blasting and screaming the War Chant is pretty badass...
I haven't read this whole thread (draining my cell phone battery right now to be online), so I don't know if someone has already mentioned the tune "Godzilla".
As near as I could tell, it's a flip folder-sized pep band arrangement of the Godzilla movie theme. Naturally, being a song for basketball games and such, it's best played really loudly. I mean really loudly.
Plus, it mostly sits around second-space C and the F at the bottom of the staff, which, for whatever reason, is by far the easiest register for truly obnoxious honking.
One of the other players in college thought that a performance of "Godzilla" loosened one of his fillings.
Leland wrote:As near as I could tell, it's a flip folder-sized pep band arrangement of the Godzilla movie theme
It may have been the song "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult, that would lend itself to some sonic crush.
Ah, but we have a new entrant to the field. Kenneth Singleton made a band transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's "Ivan The Terrible" and set it up as a five-movement suite. I've been told that some really meaty stuff got left out, but this whole thing is a blow, top to bottom. We played it at George Mason University yesterday, and I'm still seeing spots in front of my eyes.
Hey man, Imust agree Ride of the Valkyries is pretty cool. But I got a book with melody's from movies arranged for Tuba and I have to say Indiana Jones is pretty fun to play.
It's not actually a tuba song, but the 4th Movement to Dvorak's 9th Symphony (New World). The main theme is SO fun to play as loud as possible. I played it inside a church the other night, all I can say is wow!
I am just a hack, and have not played a lot of music in concert since High School, Class of '69. But I loved playing the Naval battle Theme from the movie "Ben Hur". Still love the movie and the music.
Taking a 32 bar chorus in a Traditional Jazz group.
MISERICORDE, n.
A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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First movement of the Holst Eb Suite and Dargason from the F major suite. We did that one 32 years ago and I was the only one who got the ending right.
"Cappriccio" by Krzysztof Penderecki is awesome. You have to be really efficient and comfortable with crazy intervals, but it's a blast! I played from above C above middle C down to a pedal Gb most of the time. It doesn't have to sound pretty- it's about sounding absurd, like, you can make ripping metal noises in certain parts if you like. It's just a really brutal sounding piece.
Then again, it's not very approachable. I can't play it as of right now, but I could probably pick it up again after a month or two of daily practice. You need a lot of stamina and really good fundamentals. There are people who can do it on CC tuba, but I'm not that hardcore!
