Posted by Austin H. on May 04, 2001 at 17:25:22:
In Reply to: Re: Contra-Octave in band playing posted by Bob Daniel on May 04, 2001 at 10:17:54:
Yeah, that's how we did it. We had 3 tubas in our section, and I played it down in a few parts and made sure everyone else played where written. We played The Mad Major march by Alford, the new Ticheli Shenandoah piece (like everybody else in the world), and a new piece by Jan VanDerRoost (sp?) called Balkanya (great piece) and I didn't drop anything in the march, I just played a few things down an octave on the Ticheli, and just a thing or two in the Balkanya. My conductor had actually told me to take the warm-up choralle down an octave, and I saw some E flats in the Ticheli that were just asking to be taken down, so I took the last half or so of it down an octave (it works really well, especially on that low brass chorale towards the end) and whne i asked hi about it, he said it sounded good, so I stuck with it.
Austin