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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2006-03-13 18:40
I probably should ask my conductor this and will, but I'm playing the bass sax part on contra on Grainger's "Shepherd's Hey". In places I share the melody with the tubas. (It ain't often you get the melody on contra!) In your opinion, should I (a) play it as written in unison with the tubas or (b) take it down an octave to add more of the lower harmonics? (It occasionally goes down to a low C, which my instrument can't play, but I could leave those few notes where they are.)
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2006-03-13 18:48
Hi Don,
If I was the conductor and you asked me that quesiton, I'd say stay in the same octave as the tubas. Having played a lot of Grainger charts, he had a real gift for scoring. My guess is the bass sax was the lowest woodwind timbre/octave he wanted so perhaps the better part of valor, and to best duplicate what Grainger might have had in mind, stay with the tuba octave.
He was a sax player you know!
HRL
PS I know there is that desire to trump the tubas at the low end but...
Post Edited (2006-03-13 20:34)
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-03-13 23:45
Hi Don,
If I were the conductor and you asked me that question, I'd say put it down the octave to give some extra beef.
But then again, no two conductor's are the same ... thank God.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2006-03-14 03:03
Hi Diz,
I think the main problem with adding some extra meat would be that the low C is not possible on Don's contra. Beefus interruptus!
HRL
Post Edited (2006-03-14 12:40)
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