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No Romeo and Juliet or Dream Machine. Just the following pieces...
Summer Dances:
- A sections: 126 = dotted quarter note
- B sections: 60 = dotted quarter note
Mozart:
- Movement 1: 100 = quarter note
- Movement 2: 100 = eighth note
Led Zepplin
- Rock and Roll: 160 = quarter note
- Kashmir: 80 = quarter note
- Stairway to Heaven: 72 = quarter note
- 106: 80 = quarter note
The Phantom of the Opera
In General…
- Emphasize and exaggerate dynamics to keep this piece from becoming redundant
- Be careful to save some emotion and drama for the end
- Opening: 88= Quarter note
- 4: no repeat
- 5: 116 = quarter note
- 8: no repeat
- All other repeats good
- 18: Remember that 2 bars on a half note or quarter note indicate to play as 16th notes. 1 bar on a half or quarter note indicates to play as an eighth note. 3 bars indicate a tremolo.
- 48: 86 = quarter note
- 86: 46 = dotted quarter note
- 97-101: solo top line
- 120: 120 = quarter note
- 148: 64 = quarter note
- 166: Faster
- 76-193: Cut
- 196: 64 = quarter note
- Watch tempo at end
Bowings…
Bow as written/ with common sense throughout aside from the following instances:
- 78: slur the eighth notes to the half note
- 109: Be sure to bow as written here
- 231, 232: Start each measure down bow
- 234-235: Don’t change the bow. Let it run out at the end
The Sea Hawk
In General…
- Opening: 112 = quarter note
- 24: 88 = quarter note
- 38: 112 = quarter note
- 45: 69 = quarter note
- 53: 76 = quarter note
- 67: 74 = quarter note
- 80: 56 = dotted quarter note
- 88: 52 = dotted quarter note
- 92: 76 = quarter note
- 105: 112 = quarter note
- The counting can be rather intense in this piece. Listening to recordings will help as well as marking in where the beats fall. Especially in places like measures 17-22, 45-48, etc.
- There are over 60 dynamic markings in the 111 measures of Sea Hawk. They can make or break this piece.
- 8va in measures 17-22, 67-68, 73-76. Feel free to drop down an octave if you are more comfortable there.
Bowings…
All bowings are good as of now.
- 30, 36 watch out for the D, remember to play it up bow
Africa
In General…
- Tempo in general: 92-96 = dotted quarter note and quarter note
- 6/8 time before square 3 can be labeled square 2.5
- In general, forte means orchestra only and piano means the soloist is playing
- Repeated notes with staccatos (as in the beginning) play lightly and with the wrist.
- Square 3: non divisi
- 2 after Square 4: with mutes. Mutes off at Square 6.
- 10 after Square 11: watch out for the step and a half between the C# and Bb as well as the F# and the Eb. This pattern reoccurs 3 before Square 17.
- Listen to recordings!
Bowings…
Bow as written/with common sense aside from the following instances…
- Pickups to 15 before Square 2: Start down bow
- 2 before Square 2: Up bow
- Square 3: down down
- 10 after Square 4: Start down bow and change on beat 4 for the next 5 measures
- 2 before Square 5: Start the first triplet down bow then bow as written
- Square 7, 5 after Square 7 and 9 after Square 7: beat 5 down bow
- 14 before Square 12: Catch the D on the and of beat 1 as a double down
- 17 after Square 13: Down bow
- Square 14: Begin the slur into the next measure up bow then bow as written
- 18 after Square 14: Start the measure down bow
- 20 after Square 14: Down bow
- 3 before Square 17: Slur the 16th notes down bow to the eighth note in the downbeat of the next measure
- Final 5 measures: Play all the chords down bow
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