{"id":322,"date":"2015-08-28T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2019-09-03T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:50:59","slug":"11th12th-grade-mtsboa-all-midstate-videos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/11th12th-grade-mtsboa-all-midstate-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"11th\/12th grade MTSBOA All-Midstate Videos Fall 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Morceau Symphonique<\/em> by Alexandre Guilmant, excerpts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">What can I say about\u00a0<em>Morceau Symphonique<\/em>? \u00a0This piece is one of the most popular high school solos for a reason. \u00a0It lays well on the trombone, has a challenging range that works well for serious players, and packs a lot of contrasts in dynamics and style into a short piece, making it\u00a0<em>great<\/em> for college auditions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"11th and 12th grade MTSBOA Mid-State Excerpt 1 2019\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJUXltOcoDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">As with the comments for the 9th &amp; 10th grade excerpt on this site, I add a few dynamics to follow the shape of the lines. \u00a0The first excerpt is marked\u00a0<em>piano<\/em> with\u00a0<em>con espressione<\/em>, meaning &#8216;with expression.&#8217; \u00a0There are crescendos and diminuendos written in, but every time that there is a specific dynamic written in the first section, it is\u00a0<em>piano<\/em>. \u00a0In order to build contrast, I stretch the dynamics a bit, bringing up the volume slightly in measure 9 in order to give me somewhere to diminish to. \u00a0I also delay the\u00a0<em>piano<\/em> at the end of the first excerpt so that I can finish the phrase with a sense of direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Planning out your breaths is also important in this excerpt. \u00a0The phrase beginning in the 9th measure is just a big long at this tempo for many people to be as expressive as the music dictates, so we naturally catch an extra breath. \u00a0A lot of people try to catch a breath in measure 11 after the dotted half note. \u00a0I find that that location often makes the phrase seem a bit lopsided, so I choose to breathe a bar earlier. \u00a0This gives me the opportunity to push ahead through the crescendo as I breathe and prevents the dotted half note from just sitting still and not having any musical direction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"11th &amp; 12th grade MTSBOA Mid State Excerpt 2 2019\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/15w-G8JbS2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This is the finale to the work and should be exciting to the end. \u00a0We see <em>con fuoco\u00a0<\/em>(with fire). \u00a0In addition to the increase in tempo from earlier in the piece, I let the sound and articulation both add a bit more excitement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">You will notice that I do not play the triplets in a totally metronomic manner. \u00a0By starting a hair slower on these and speeding up, I continue to build the excitement through both entrances rather than just playing\u00a0<em>fortissimo<\/em> all the way through the end of the piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The excerpt stops just a few bars shy of the end of the actual piece rather than finishing it to the end because the next note is a trill on a D. \u00a0Some people choose to play this as a valve trill, but I prefer to perform this as a lip trill, as you will hear on the complete recording below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morceau symphonique, Op. 88 (Arr. 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Shepard)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXdmavY27D0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">If you are planning to audition for college, this would be a great choice and you should learn the entire piece rather than just these two short excerpts. \u00a0The final\u00a0of the three\u00a0videos here is a complete performance that I recorded\u00a0with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, directed by Joseph Hermann. \u00a0It is available through Amazon as well as on iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morceau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant, excerpts What can I say about\u00a0Morceau Symphonique? \u00a0This piece is one of the most popular high school solos for a reason. \u00a0It lays well on the trombone, has a challenging range that works well for serious players, and packs a lot of contrasts in dynamics and style into a short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/11th12th-grade-mtsboa-all-midstate-videos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">11th\/12th grade MTSBOA All-Midstate Videos Fall 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/jhauser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}