Royal Flemish Philharmonic rep. list...

[sloan]

Now this is what I call an audition list:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/DeFilharmonie_V ... 09tuba.pdf" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

And not only do they tell you which horn to use on which tunes,

So...how come you get a choice of Bass Tuba, but no choice about Contrabass Tuba?

[The Jackson]

C tuba?

See, tuba!


I do like that Adams, though...

Mmmmmm... Post-minimalism...

[ztuba]

They called corsaire ... that Ab is way harder to hit than the Bb in fantastique

[Wyvern]

Interesting they have Stravinsky Rite of Spring on the C tuba list and Wagner Meistersinger on F/Eb!

That C tuba requirement is going to prevent the British Eb only, and German Bb players applying.

[oedipoes]

Now this is what I call an audition list:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/DeFilharmonie_V ... 09tuba.pdf" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

And not only do they tell you which horn to use on which tunes, they take it a step further and put the whole shootin' match online for you in a pdf file that you can save to your hard drive.

37 pages of orchestral excerpts.

OK kids - every one who needs to build their orchestral excerpt books for studio class/audition prep., here is a pretty good place to start, esp. if you don't have the Cherry CD's, etc.

Enjoy.

BTW, the orchestra's website is here:

http://www.defilharmonie.be/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Clicking on the tab "English summary" at the top right hand corner will make it a tad easier for some of us...

I don't know where you are from, but do you plan to do the audition?
Just interested, in global terms, it's not far away from me.

I'm not a pro player but some of the exerpts look simple to me?
I'll print the pdf and give the practice a try on my BBb. However, I'm not used to read in the contrabass clef. Our parts are written one octave higher normally (band -thing?)

[corbasse]

I'll print the pdf and give the practice a try on my BBb. However, I'm not used to read in the contrabass clef. Our parts are written one octave higher normally (band -thing?)

It's worse: our BBb parts are transposed an octave plus a whole tone, and this is only done in France, Belgium and Holland.
This means that most amateur players can only play band parts and some local literature because the remaining 99.5% of the world is blissfully unaware of this weird and unnecessarily confusing practice and writes everything at concert pitch...
Even worse, I've recieved an Eb part a few weeks ago by mistake. It was transposed, in bass clef, written in such a way that everything was a third below concert pitch.
I tried playing from it but gave up after 2 tries. Long live finale!

[Wyvern]

It's worse: our BBb parts are transposed an octave plus a whole tone, and this is only done in France, Belgium and Holland.

I experienced this first hand once trying to play with a French band on my Eb. I soon gave up trying to read the music and just busked my way through the rest of the gig I never did work out the transposition.

[Chuck Jackson]

Nope. For one thing, if you dig a little deeper into their website, it lists which nationalities are "acceptable" to work in Belgium, at least without all of the legal mumbo-jumbo coming into account. And the United States is not on the list.

Reading more carefully, one would find that the core positions are open to ANY nationality, while the substitute positions are under the aforementioned strictures.

Chuck