Bydlo ...who gets to play it ?

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:30 pm

Tonight (Jan. 14,2008) my community band was handed new music for the next concert . We were given a full "Wind Orchestration" of Pictures at an Exhibition . I was surprised that neither the tuba nor the euphonium was given the Bydlo solo. I don't know what instrument will be playing because we did not get that far into it.
I thought it would be fun to let the TNFJ battle it out to see who guesses correctly what instrument it has been written for.
I won't tell you who did the orchestration or what publishing company is selling it. What I will tell you is that the orchestrator did it directly from the piano score of Mussorgsky and not from Ravels arrangement.
I will know for sure next week when we run through it again .

bort · Post by **bort** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:48 pm

I played an arrangement of Pictures last year with my band, and we only read through Bydlo once. I don't remember much, but I sure know that I didn't get to play it. I think it was in the euphonium?

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:50 pm

While disappointing to me as a tuba player, the Gorkachov orchestration (for orchestra) uses the whole horn section, to quite an extraordinary effect, I might add....

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:21 pm

If not on tuba or french horn, I think I can most imagine Bydlo played on a t-bone.

After that would be accordion

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:33 pm

I'll guess horn as well.

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:07 am

I hope that the horns play the solo, but since it is a "wind orchestration" it might be the *shudders* saxophones.

J.c. Sherman · Post by **J.c. Sherman** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:54 am

The version I read has the "solo" in the tutti horns as well...

J.c.S.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:54 pm

Eb Contrabass Saxophone would be the ultimate!!!

maybe with cues in contrabassoon.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:38 pm

Maybe if it were written for Contrabassoon and Contrabas sax in parallel fifths and amplified.....

Gentlemen, careful, there are children lurking about.........

Chuck"little ears"Jackson

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:03 am

Definatly didgeridoo

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:10 am

Tubaing wrote:Definatly didgeridoo

How about didgeri-don't...

MileMarkerZero · Post by **MileMarkerZero** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:22 am

Chuck Jackson wrote:
Maybe if it were written for Contrabassoon and Contrabas sax in parallel fifths and amplified.....
Gentlemen, careful, there are children lurking about.........

Chuck"little ears"Jackson

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:54 pm

Where's the box for accordion!?

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:00 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Where's the box for accordion!?

Here you go.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:15 pm

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:18 pm

lgb&dtuba wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:Where's the box for accordion!?
Here you go.

Below the belt, man. Below the belt.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:21 pm

lgb&dtuba wrote:

Find the hidden violas

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:24 pm

I get the idea that some of you don't like accordians. Accordians may not be what I would want to hear the Bydlo on, but I happen to like them when they are played by the right players. I play a lot of gigs with a really fantastic accordianist. His name is Robert Atwood. Awesome player! Those of you in the PA area should hear Al Meixner and his group. They're really worth checking out.

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:43 pm

TubaRay wrote:I get the idea that some of you don't like accordians.

It was a joke, son. A joke, I say.

Jim 'You did notice my avatar, right?' Wagner

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:04 pm

lgb&dtuba wrote: Jim 'You did notice my avatar, right?' Wagner

Avatar? Avatar?! We don't need no stinkin' avatar!

TubeNet

Bydlo ...who gets to play it ?

What insturment will get the Bydlo solo ?

Bydlo ...who gets to play it ?