Mendelssohn Reformation
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
https://www.amazon.com/Mendelssohn-Symp ... B00UB1QSCC
I've performed this several times on French tuba, and Bloke (and others!) are in luck, as they're now available!
I've performed this several times on French tuba, and Bloke (and others!) are in luck, as they're now available!
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
That's absolutely the best thing about a salaried orchestra gig: being able to justify instrument purchases. In 15 years on the job with it, I'd played enough Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Gounod, Delibes, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen, etc. on it to easily say the French tuba had 'earned its keep'.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
I know you own a 3+1 Eb, so you're already good with that setup. The 5th is just as it is on any tuba (flat whole step). The only thing that takes getting used to is the 6th.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
As my serpent teacher says about this piece, if you can distinctly hear the serpent, they're playing it wrong haha.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Mendelssohn loved the English Bass Horn, even if he described it in a letter to his sister as a "type of watering can". But at the time were more serpent players around and the contrabassoons quite underdeveloped, so he combined them to a nice bass voice, playing in octaves.
Last year we played the Reformation, I used my Ophicleide for the Serpent part. (And for the Bass Horn part in the op.24 Ouverture). The recording is quite nice...
Last year we played the Reformation, I used my Ophicleide for the Serpent part. (And for the Bass Horn part in the op.24 Ouverture). The recording is quite nice...
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
I was lucky enough to play this several years ago in a local orchestra. I remember packing up to go home and being handed the part by the personnel manager. It worked well on my F tuba, at least, I didn't hear any complaints. I've got the part laying around somewhere...
Michael Taylor
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Instructor of Tuba/Euphonium
Lenoir-Rhyne University, NC
North Greenville University, SC
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Dude, bombardon is so overdone. It's so passé.the elephant wrote:The serpent is just another gimmick. It'll never catch on with the kids.
Cool kids play the bombardon.
My cousin in Williamsburg plays the carnyx and gets all the chicks.
Step up your hipster game, yo.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Carnyx....now we're talking.....
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Joe, Are you at DC conference? If so, you will be welcome to try the French C, as well as the B&F style Kaiser BBb which is another I think may interest you...bloke wrote:Much of the W-offered gadgetry does not interest me...and some here know that I've sworn off 6/4-ery...but the "French" tuba...I would like to sit down and mess with one to see "what it's all about".
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Maybe Courtois or Willson will be there with a bass saxhorn.bloke wrote:various config's of 9' long (sure: 8' long) tuba-like instruments HAVE piqued my curiosity.
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That sounds a good strategy!bloke wrote: Rather than (typically) dragging my rear end and arriving at the facility just in time to get everything set up in time for the midday opening, I'll see about being an early bird this time. (Thanks very much for your invitation to try out those two instruments! ...and I prefer not having to compete - sonically - with all the other elephants, which will be herding themselves in soon thereafter...and I also prefer to not try to test instruments after the entire herd of 250 - 300 lb. elephants have raised the room temperature up to 80° - which makes it somewhat difficult to evaluate intonation characteristics.)
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
I made a recording two years ago of me playing it on my ophicleide. I know it's not the serpent, but it's closer than a bombardon. It's still not a carnyx, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqfVOHZazk" target="_blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqfVOHZazk" target="_blank
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
I am given to understand Mendelssohn was an enthusiastic Lutheran, and the 5th seems to support that view. Sadly the symphony was not performed for the event it was intended, the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. What horn to use would seem to depend on the conductor’s views on HIP and the availability of a contrabassoon.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
If the church was headed by Pope Urban the second I would reform myself toobarry grrr-ero wrote:I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.
I would put a good signature here, but i dont have one, so this will make do.
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Re: Mendelssohn Reformation
Not clear as to the significance of mentioning Pope Urban II in this context, as he was pontiff over 400 years before the Reformation, and over 700 years prior to the composition of the Reformation Symphony....TheTuba wrote:If the church was headed by Pope Urban the second I would reform myself toobarry grrr-ero wrote:I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.
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