The chamber brass group that I'm playing with this summer is doing a piece with the theme of 'Yankee Doodle', that has a 6-8 measure (or so) tuba cadenza halfway into it. The 'stock' cadenza is ok, but I can write my own If I so choose... I would like to incorperate a bar or two of piece from the same time period/genre into it somehow, but I'm not sure what would be...
Working this melody into the cadenza isn't an issue, but finding a nice, easily recognizable tune from the same period is giving me a surprizing amount of trouble (I can't seem to remember any that I think would seem appropriate
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A couple of the other works being performed are patriotic in nature, but any ideas would definately be appreciated.
thanks!
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