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Bydlo ...who gets to play it ?
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:30 pm
by oldbandnerd
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 .
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:48 pm
by bort
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:50 pm
by Z-Tuba Dude
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....
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:21 pm
by The Jackson
If not on tuba or french horn, I think I can most imagine Bydlo played on a t-bone.
After that would be accordion
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:33 pm
by sc_curtis
I'll guess horn as well.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:07 am
by finnbogi
I hope that the horns play the solo, but since it is a "wind orchestration" it might be the *shudders* saxophones.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:54 am
by J.c. Sherman
The version I read has the "solo" in the tutti horns as well...
J.c.S.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:54 pm
by eupher61
Eb Contrabass Saxophone would be the ultimate!!!
maybe with cues in contrabassoon.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:38 pm
by Chuck Jackson
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
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:03 am
by Tubaing
Definatly didgeridoo
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:10 am
by sc_curtis
Tubaing wrote:Definatly didgeridoo
How about didgeri-don't...
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:22 am
by MileMarkerZero
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
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:54 pm
by windshieldbug
Where's the box for accordion!?
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:00 pm
by lgb&dtuba
windshieldbug wrote:Where's the box for accordion!?
Here you go.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:15 pm
by windshieldbug
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:18 pm
by The Jackson
lgb&dtuba wrote:windshieldbug wrote:Where's the box for accordion!?
Here you go.
Below the belt, man. Below the belt.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:21 pm
by windshieldbug
lgb&dtuba wrote:
Find the hidden violas
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:24 pm
by TubaRay
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:43 pm
by lgb&dtuba
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
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:04 pm
by TubaRay
lgb&dtuba wrote:
Jim 'You did notice my avatar, right?' Wagner
Avatar? Avatar?! We don't need no stinkin' avatar!