What piece of music hits your sweet spot?

drewfus · Post by **drewfus** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:32 am

Inspired by the "Playing takes troubles away" post.

That one piece, or passage in a certain work, that makes your skin tingle. When all the harmonies click in a soulful way.

Ticheli's "American Elegy" hit me hard, even though the tuba part is not much to get excited about.

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:07 am

That happens to me with quite a few pieces.

I was out practicing one of them last night, Rachmanninov Symphony No.2. The tuba coming in without the trombones on the bottom of the cord in the first movement is a really great feeling!

Jonathan "who gets the biggest tingle playing in the lower register"

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:14 am

"Dancing Night Winds" which is a flute piece transposed for euphonium and played by Charley Brighton :
http://www.acidplanet.com/components/em ... 315&T=1511

"Auburn is the color" composed by Mike Forbes and played by Sotto Voce

The second movement of the "New World Symphony " by Anotnin Dvorak commanly know as "coming Home" .

pwhitaker · Post by **pwhitaker** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:39 am

Many Trad jazz pieces (with the "right" group):

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me
St. James Infirmary Blues
Black and Blue
Some of These Days
Maggie
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
After You've Gone
Louisiana
Wait 'Till the Sun Shines Nellie
You Are My Sunshine
The Original Dixieland One Step
San
At the Jazz Band Ball
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Dixie
Just a Little While to Stay Here
Buddy Bolden's Blues
I Get the Blues When it Rains
Whenever You're Lonesome
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
That's a Plenty

..... to name a few

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:44 am

I've gotten a couple at school:
First Suite in Eb
My recital (effie suite and Penn Capriccio for tuba and marimba)
but the biggest moments of "I LOVE MUSIC!!"....

Ballad: Spartans 2003
Company Fronts: Spartans 2004

Corps arrangement of "Fire of Eternal Glory" in the parking lot, after a show 45 horn players in tears..amazing

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:13 am

Dvorak - 'Cello Concerto

GC · Post by GC » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:28 am

Ralph Vaughn Williams' Folksong Suite (not hard, just pretty) Robert Russell Bennett's Suite of Old American Dances, Norman Dello Joio's Scenes from the Louvre, and Chance's Incantation and Dance.

Also Barber's Overture to The School for Scandal, Stokowski's orchestrations of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God and Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor, and Debussy's Fetes.

timayer · Post by **timayer** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:36 am

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on the Theme by Thomas Tallis

The last big, loud shout chorale at the end of Mahler 5, and lots of other Mahler

Shostakovich 7

Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata

jeopardymaster · Post by **jeopardymaster** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:02 am

Last Movement of Mahler 3
VW Sea Symphony, 4th Movement
Hindemith Symphonie Mathis der Maler (all)
Last Movement of Brahms 2
Pines of the Appian Way
VW Serenade to Music
Last 2 Movements of Mahler 5
Last Movement of Sibelius 2
Saturn - Planets
Tod und Verklarung -- Strauss

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:30 am

GC wrote:Ralph Vaughn Williams' Folksong Suite. Not hard, just pretty.

got to second that, as well as Mahler: "songs of a wayfarer"

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:45 am

Bruckner 8: The whole damn thing.
Psalm 150: AMAZING!

Respighi: Church Windows, again, the whole damn thing.

Shostakovich: The Execution of Stepan Razin, wow.

Wagner: Gotterdammerung, the Immolation Scene. How can your
draw not drop to the floor, and your soul not melt into a huge puddle of goo listening to that!

Tannhauser: Overture, The trombone line floors me every time, best recording bar none is the Cincinnati Symphony recording. Best trombone section sound I have ever heard. Tony Chipburn, James Eastman, Pete Norton. gets no better than that!

There are sooo many more...

Band:
Maslanka: Symphony No.4, wow, that is amazing stuff.

Holsinger: Deathtree. The USMB guys here can attest to this power of this piece.

Lots lots lots more. Too many to list

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:02 am

"'Till There Was You-Reprise" Meridith Wilson That trombone line at the end sends shivers.

"Movement for Rosa" is another one that can do amazing things for you.

Sou

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:35 pm

GC wrote: Also Robert Russell Bennett's Suite of Old American Dances.

Yeh, I'll second that! Also love the Euph part in Karl King's Melody Shop.

And I never tire of Barber's Adagio.

tubiker · Post by **tubiker** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:46 pm

Its

Strauss Four Last Songs

and

Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill

for me

Andrew M

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:55 pm

Tichelli's Vesuvius

During the brass chorale where the tuba holds down the A while the rest of the brass section toys with chords and then we all resolve to an F. It's such a sweet feeling when we all nail the chord.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:54 pm

Pink Floyd "The Wall"
Brian Eno "Another Green Earth"
Mendelssohn "Hebrides Overture"
Willie Nelson "September Song" via Kurt Weill on the Stardust Album

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:57 pm

Saint-Saens's "Bacchanale"
Wagner's "Prelude to the 3rd Act of Lohengrin"
Gandolfi's "Vientos Y Tangos"
Maslanka's "In a Child's Garden of Dreams"
Mozart's "O Isis und Osiris"
Schubert's "Die Erlkonig"
and of course
Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9"

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:56 pm

timayer wrote:Vaughan Williams Fantasia on the Theme by Thomas Tallis

You speak for me. It's one of very few pieces I can listen two twice straight through in turn without getting bored the second time around.

Rick "thinking tuba players should be grateful they get to listen to this one" Denney

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:12 pm

Vaughan Williams- 'Wasps' Overture
VW- Tallis Variations (the coolest piece for string orchestra EVER)
any Vincent Persichetti slow movement (esp. Symphony #6)
a really great performance of "O Holy Night" of "Gesu Bambino" (I once heard a performance of Fredereke Von Stade doing "Bambino" whilst in the car. I just about had to pull over)
Crosby, Stills & Nash- "Wasted on the Way"

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:13 pm

Adams, Harmonium
Scriabin, Poem of Fire (Prometheus)

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