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Buckaroo Holiday
In General…
Count, play fast, good luck…
- Listening to recordings and following along with the music will help with all the crazy counting
- Play very angular – accents, staccato, minimal legato, secco (dry)
- Be aware of the constant dynamic changes
- Careful of the important rests at 7 after 1, 2 before 14, 3 before 16, 4 after 16, 21-25 measures marked silent, 2 before 35, 35, 2 after 35, 3 after 35, 2 before 38, 38, 39, 2 after 39, 3 after 39, 5 after 40, 4 before 41, 2 after 41.
- 6 measures after 5 con sordino
- 2 measures after 10 senza sordino
- 4 measures after 12 con legno. Play with the stick of the bow
- 21 at the frog
- 27: changes in this section back and forth from col legno to modo ordinary (as written)
- 30-31: Soli – first stand only
- 34: Watch the accents
- 38, 43: 3/2 time
- After 39 at the key change, note that the key change is in the middle of a measure
Bowings…
Play as written/with common sense throughout aside from the following instances
- 4 after 13 and all subsequent sections, start each motif down bow as indicated (including after 37, after 40, and after 41)
- 2 before 29, bow up up up as done previously in 2 before 26
- 30: Down bow
Still am working out and experimenting with the bowing for the theme
Variations on a Shaker Melody
In General...
- Be expressive with hairpin dynamics
- Make sure to hold the half notes at the ends of phrases for their full value as in 2 measures after 1
- 3 measures after 9 twice as fast
- Con Sordino at the end
Bowings...
Bow as written/with common sense throughout aside from the following instances...
- 1 measures after 9 bow down up down down up
- At 15 start down bow then bow as written
- Second to last measure start up bow
Handel in the Strand
NO RUSHING!!!! Subdivide carefully, especially during the pizzicato. Listen to each other and keep your eyes on Rich.
Play crisply and seperate the accents.
Clip the slurs a smidgen to give the piece motion and a bit of a lilt - there should always be energy and color.
54: Notice the sudden p for one measure.
112: The last beat is a quarter rest so we can't hold the high G.
Overall play lightly and with continual movement – very fluid. Nothing heavy or Romantic.
Dig into the string with your pizzicato. I pizz farther back onto the fingerboard as I have more resonance there.
Out of the 112 measures in this piece, almost half the measures in the first violin part have dynamic markings!
Bowings:
Bow as written aside from the following…
18: start up bow
32: the first two sixteenth notes play down up instead of slurring them
57: start down bow
59: start the run up bow
61: separate the eighth notes
62: down bow
65: up bow run (if you go up into position on the A string with your first finger on G, you will be able to do the run without shifting)
71: start up bow
74: D and rest of slur is down bow
86: Dotted quarter-eighth slurred, G is up bow, D tied into 87 is slurred with the next eighth note D
87: Beat 2 is slurred, beats 3 and 4 are slurred
90: change the printed down bow to an up bow
101: start up bow
104: start up bow
108: 16th note run will be up bow
110: separate the two eighth notes on beat 2, the half note should be up bow
11: The chord and the beginning of the run will be down down
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