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Author: BHO Tenor Sax
Date: 2002-09-25 03:25
I do not know if this is that informational, but I thought it had some relation to this forum...
What are the favorite melodies you have ever played in band?
I play tenor sax, and here are some of mine: (chronological)
For symphonic/concert/orchestral band:
-Background melody in "Animaniacs"
-Walking bass rhythm in "Rock Around the Clock"
-Melody in "On Wisconsin"
-Rhythm in "El Tigre"
-Melody in "Eroica"
-Melody and low-sound rhythm in "March Slav"
-Melody in "Procession of the Nobles"
-Melody in "Jurrasic Park"
-Melody in "A Highland Rhapsody"
-Melody in "Parade of the Tall Ships"
-Melody from a level in Mega Man 3 (do not ask)
For jazz band:
-Melody in "In the Mood"
-Tenor solo in "A String of Pearls"
-Melody in "Take the A Train"
Those are mine, what are yours?
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-09-25 07:06
Ok I'm sorry, but the idea of a tenor saxophone playing Beethoven and Tchaikovsky somehow just makes me uneasy.
I'm an oboist, and I've played in a lot of different groups so I'm just going to list a few in each genre.
Band music-wise:
-All the oboe stuff in Armenian Dances Pt. I & II, El Camino Real, and Russian Christmas Music all by Alfred Reed
-David by Stephen Melillo
-Tulsa by Don Gillis
-Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson
Orchestra music-wise:
-Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel by R. Strauss
-Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Wagner
-Capriccio Espagnol and Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov
-Polovetsian Dances by Borodin
-The Magic Flute Overture and Symphony No. 40 by Mozart
-Finlandia by Sibelius
-Oboe duets in Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach
-Second Romance for Oboe and Piano in A by Schumann (not really orchestra music, but... eh.)
-too many others to name this late at night.
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Author: Saxy Boy
Date: 2002-09-26 17:39
I am an oboist, but I remember a few of my favorite band pieces for tenor saxophone.
-Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst: 4th movement
-Highlights from wizard of Oz(full 5 page arrangement): tenors get the melody quite a bit in that one.
-Blues for a killed cat(band accompaniment+saxophone/trumpet)
-Festive Overture: Shostakovich. So fast. So fun.
hmm...
-Covenant: fast parts only(the rest is pretty much tuba farts)
-American Elegy+Shenandoah: They're not fast, but fun to play collectively as a band
-Alvamar Overture: James Barnes. Tenors just made the cutoff. I have no idea how this song made the concert band syllabus because the woodwinds(including tenors) are playing stuff that's really hard for grade 4, and the basses do pretty much nothing the whole song. the combined theme at the end has the tenors doing a quick allegro obbligato with the rest of the high winds.
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I find that tenor sax parts come to be of the same level of difficulty as the higher woodwinds, once you get up to about grade 4 or 5. So basically any compositions in that level are usually satisfying for me.
Saxy Boy
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Author: clari chick
Date: 2003-09-07 22:36
ong i luc the song alvamar overture its soooo fast and good timez especially for em being a clarinet and all i wish tho that i could get a the part for sax on that song that would b great then i could take my rest on the song and replace it with sax and then transpose of cours and then i would play it for a solo! well see ya
clari chick
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