music with mute

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:54 am

There is a previous tread on this at viewtopic.php?t=4848&highlight=

Tubaguy56 · Post by **Tubaguy56** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:11 pm

Emblems-Copland (Wind Ensemble)

Yes the tuba part in Firebird Suite is supposed to have a mute

tubaribonephone · Post by **tubaribonephone** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:39 pm

Dance Movements by Philip Sparke has a few notes at the end of the 3rd movement, Lento (for the Brass).

Jonathan Fowler · Post by **Jonathan Fowler** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:22 pm

The most recent things I've played with a mute:

Puccini - Turandot
Shostakovich Symphony No 11

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:56 pm

I have wanted to respond to this post for a while, but have been too lazy until now.

There are many works that require a mute, possibibly too many to mention...so I will mention composers...

No Wagner! Besides the usual horn mute stuff, he used mutes in trumepets and trombones, AND very infrequently.

Strauss: you'll almost certainly need one, and your change time will almost always be too brief! (nothing like holding a mute while trying to play something easy OR difficult!)

Puccini: two notes in Turandot. (can't think of any other instances, Besides the part is NOT for tuba.)

Janacek, yes!

Debussy, Ravel, YES.

Shostakovich, Prokofiev, I think so, but only every so often; SOMEBODY please correct me if I'm wrong!!

Copland? I don't know!

Just what I could think of without digging through the excerpt "crawlspace"...

CJH

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:24 pm

bttmbow wrote:Copland?

Yup, Ceremonial Fanfare. Goes up to E-flat above the staff with the mute in.

Lots 'n' lots o' pieces for British brass band use mutes, too...

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:06 am

Some that come to mind:

Mahler Symphony No.9
Strauss An Alpine Symphony
Janacek Taras Bulba
Suk Asrael Symphony
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:32 am

"Cave of the Winds" by Russel Peck. A concert band I played with the UCLA Wind Ensemble back in '93.

There's actually a poor quality video of it I put on the YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKmiG5ZNDH8

Wes Krygsman · Post by **Wes Krygsman** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:56 am

Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story"

NickJones · Post by **NickJones** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:20 am

works for Brass Only

Cloudcatcher Fells - John Mcabe
Whitsun Wakes - Michael Ball
All the Flowers of the Mountain - Michael Ball
Tallis Variations - Philip Sparke
Partitia - Philip Sparke
Masquarade - Philip Wilby

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:05 pm

CMUJoiseyBoy wrote:I know that David Gillingham is fond of the timbre (he's told me so himself).

Did he tell you any reasons why? Upper register is a garbage disposal. Lower register is a Weed-Eater. Dude needs a CAT-scan.

"Diaghilev Dances" by Kenneth Hesketh needs a mute. One eighth-note triplet, all by itself, out of 18 minutes of music. Mute in, "BAP-BAP-BAP!!!", mute out.

The junior member of the tuba section, whoever that may be on any given concert, automatically becomes the front-runner for the dreaded position of "Mute Boy." Oddly enough, Paul missed out on being Mute Boy this week, because Cameron and I are playing the one-on-a-part section of the Hesketh that uses a mute. Normally, this means I'd have to be Mute Boy, BUT... I'd already been assigned the top divisi of the part, and the mute is in the bottom divisi. Thus, this week's Senior Mute Boy is MSgt Gates. Fitting, too, since the extreme low register muted sounds much like an angry duck with an adenoid problem. Oh, Mute Boy... "BAP-BAP-BAP!!!"

Muted tuba with a full muted brass section=tolerable. Solo muted tuba=death. All inquiries concerning band music with muted tuba should be directed to MSgt Cameron Gates, Duck Fan, Senior Mute Boy, USMB.

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:36 am

I was wrong; Turandot has SIX muted notes.

Whoops!
CJH

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:14 pm

a ton of brass quintet stuff

Easty621 · Post by **Easty621** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:29 pm

Copland Symphony No. 3 (awesome piece)

unclepenny · Post by **unclepenny** » Tue May 29, 2007 12:17 pm

The third movement of The Pines of Rome, and some goofy song called Hands Up have muted parts.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:18 pm

This is one area where I envy the trumpet players. They've got all of those neat mutes--and all I've got is a straight mute. Score says "solotone" and the trumpets rummage around in their bags and pull out some arcane piece of plumbing as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

I really want a plunger mute for my horn. Maybe I could adapt a toilet seat...