Product Description
Description
A delightful, intermediate level work suitable for encouraging students, hobbyists and professionals to improve or show off their performance skills. This lively work engages the audience with a breadth of moods from enlightening to reflective to celebratory. A great recital piece or encore piece to show off the melodiousness, harmoniousness and vibrancy of the tuba. Please send feedback, praises and more to contact@joaba.com.
Total Duration: ~8 minutes
Performance Notes
PreludeThe real art of performing this piece
is to master its dynamics. With the long pianissimo to forte crescendo at the
introduction, the contrasting forte/mezzo piano sections and brisk, shorter
crescendos for the cadences, the tubist must be aware of dynamics at all time
and use them wisely.
The second aspect to performing this
piece is to contrast the 2 eighth note plus quarter note slurs motif against
the arpeggiations. The introduction
starts with the slurs and evolves into the arpeggiations by the first forte
and the remaining piece explores the contrast between the two. Performers should feel free to try
different dynamics, try different tempos (like zipping through the
arpeggiations and slowing for the motif), etc.
The goal is to bring the listener
through the pleasantries of introductions to feel fresh and eager for further
discourse ahead.
MarchThe rewarding challenge in this piece
is to bring out the difference between "cheery" and "con brio". The former being achieved by emphasizing
the swaggering, strutting feel of the one-measure-per-beat feel and the latter
by emphasizing the intervallic bounciness with the one-two march feel.
Note that the motif (with the quarter
note morphing into an eighth note) along with simpler arpeggiations are
brought to play in a new manner reinforcing the positive mood from the
prelude.
The goal is to befriend the listener
with an engaging, buoyant time.
AirThe tubist will exercise great breath
control and phrasing to achieve a sublime solemnness counterbalancing the
prior two movements.
The motif now takes center stage
headlining the main melodic phrases; however, here it is disjointed and
conveys the sighing for the solemnness.
After the pleasantness of the march,
affableness having garnered friendship, we now open ourselves to share some
somber matters and offer consolation.
The intended goal here is to add depth to the relationship by
addressing darker aspects in the discourse.
Slip-jig RondoHarking back to the compound meter of
the prelude, this dance adventurously wakens the listener from the solemnness
of the air asserting a new grandness and gladness. This is a slip-jig put into the rondo form
so celebrate the main dance theme when it comes around and put fire and
character into the transitions to make it worthwhile.
The motif now jumps into the compound
meters beat and morphs into three slurred, conjoint eighth notes. Now this motif enables several affects:
exciting dance steps, transitions/modulations and concluding the phrases and
the piece itself.
The performer should aim to lead and
amaze the listener with the waltz-like slip-jig rhythm and astound with the
virtuosic transitions as a final send-off.
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