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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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