Thelonious Monk Posted May 20, 2007 Report Posted May 20, 2007 me and my private (tuba) teacher are compiling a list of composers than produced some great low brass music in their lifetimes. so far i've just got the basics: Barber - All Symphonies, School For Scandal, Essays Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarine Beethoven - Symphonies 5 and 9 Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique, Hungarian March, Roman Carnival Overture Bernstein - West Side Story, Candide, On The Town Brahms - All Symphonies Bruckner - All Symphonies Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man, Symphony #3, Rodeo, El Salon Meixoc Debussy - Nocturnes, La Mer Dvorak - Symphonies #7, #8 and #9 Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue, American In Paris Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphises, Mathis Der Mahler Holst - The Planets Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Peacock Variations Mahler - All Symphonies, excluding #4 Mendelssohn - Symphony #4 Mozart - Requiem, Magic Flute Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition, Night On Bald Mountain Nielson - All Symphonies Prokofiev - All Symphonies, Romeo and Juliet, Lt. Kije Rachmoninoff - All Symphonies Ravel - Bolero, La Valse, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Daphnis Et Chloe Respighi - Pines Of Rome, Church Windows, Fountains Of Rome, Roman Festival Rimsky-Korsakov - All Symphonies, Sheherazade, Russian Easter Overture Rossini - La Gazza Ladra, William Tell Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 Schubert - Symphonies #5, #8 and #9 Shostakovich - All Symphonies, especially #1, #5 and #7 Sibelius - All Symphonies (especially #2), Finlandia R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleiben, Alpine Symphony, Till Eulenspiegal, Elektra, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring, Petrouchka, The Firebird Tchaikovsky - All Symphonies, especially #4, #5 and #6 Verdi - Othello, La Forza Del Desiton, Aida, Requiem Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Gotterdamerung, All Overtures no help from him yet. obviously doesn't have to be a tuba concerto or trombone solo, just anything with great, prominent low brass. admittedly some of the stuff from this list i haven't heard yet.
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