Thelonious Monk Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hYdrociTy Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Very useful contribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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