Product Description
Description
Total Duration: 11 minutes.
A vigorous, advanced level work suitable for encouraging
students, hobbyists and professionals to improve or show off their performance
skills. In an enjoyable and delightful
manner, tubists will build dexterity, endurance, expressiveness, effective volume
and range (going up to D/C# above the staff). This work will charm, captivate,
and rouse/impress audiences. A great recital
piece or encore piece to show off the melodiousness, harmoniousness and vibrancy
of the tuba in whole or in part. Please
send feedback, praises and more to contact@joaba.com.
Performance
Notes from the Composer
Édesen
Édesen translates to
"sweetly" in Hungarian, and is this movements purpose: to be a centering,
calming moment before the following tumult.
The first 10 bars serve
as an introduction to warm up to the melody. The melody has three contrasting
articulations that must be respected: staccato, legato, and normal. The melody easily leads to high and low
range notes-excellent for beginner/intermediate tubists to expand and solidify
their range. Give more air for the ranges
extremities so pitches dont become too thin or muddled. The second theme in
the dominant (E major) should be played with luscious legato and bright
staccato.
Lassan
Lassan translates to
"slowly" in Hungarian usually conveying stateliness or seriousness. This argumentative movement breaks the
formers idyll and sets the case for the next movements defiance and victory.
The first section is to
be played serious and strong. Increase
air support for the higher pitches.
Make the descending scales resound and bounce off the lowest notes. The second theme starting at 81 should be
played with great charm and ease. For the "solo" passages, show-off but slow
the tempo into the fermatas: (m77-80, m102-103, and m132-133).
Friska
Friska translates to
"fresh" in Hungarian and in this case, its a duality of turbulence and final
elation.
Start the piece fast,
but not too boisterous-embellishments are added in the repeat demanding boisterousness. Epitomizing the turbulence, the con moto sections (at m161 & m260)
emphasize a 1 beat per measure feel-accelerate the tempo as is comfortable. The digressionary, "crab-like" sections (at
m176 & m275) should be played as light as possible to help build up to
the elated sections. The first elated
section (m188) should be played as if gleefully discovered but not yet won; the
second elated section (m291), with a victorious finality that cannot be
diminished or tarnished.
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