Bound scores!
Mar. 2nd, 2006 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyankoframeFor the concert, since I wasn't able to find two original copies of the score (only one), we were using photocopies all this time during coaching, practice and peer review. Well, now that the concert is a week away, we had to switch to binding our scores as the lighting in the concert venue reflects off the plastic.
So I used the opportunity to photocopy some other pieces that I've been playing on but have been too lazy to photocopy individually: Bamboula - Fantasie & Danse de Negres, Le Bananier, Chanson Negre, "Union", Paraphrase de Concert on the National Airs, Danza, Souvenir de Porto Rico - Marche des Gibaros, Berceuse - Cradle Song, The Dying Poet and Tournament Galop.
I don't think I have (yet) the technical proficiency to master all of them, and I'm still rather bad at turning pages quickly. :P But already I've been able to play Bamboula (op. 2, composed in France) from beginning to end, though at a much slower tempo than indicated (the score suggests crotchet beat = 112 and I think I'm playing about 74).
However, if you can listen to a recording of it, I would strongly recommend it. To quote George W. Cable ("The Dance in Place Congo", 1886): the dance involved "the booming of African drums and blast of huge wooden horns, the use of triangles, Jew's harps, rattles, banjo, and the slap of bare feet on earth". I believe it has even been performed using such actual instruments, though I don't have a source for that.
And finally, sleeping on a wet pillow is always an interesting experience... So is being told by your own sister that your playing is "abysmal".
So I used the opportunity to photocopy some other pieces that I've been playing on but have been too lazy to photocopy individually: Bamboula - Fantasie & Danse de Negres, Le Bananier, Chanson Negre, "Union", Paraphrase de Concert on the National Airs, Danza, Souvenir de Porto Rico - Marche des Gibaros, Berceuse - Cradle Song, The Dying Poet and Tournament Galop.
I don't think I have (yet) the technical proficiency to master all of them, and I'm still rather bad at turning pages quickly. :P But already I've been able to play Bamboula (op. 2, composed in France) from beginning to end, though at a much slower tempo than indicated (the score suggests crotchet beat = 112 and I think I'm playing about 74).
However, if you can listen to a recording of it, I would strongly recommend it. To quote George W. Cable ("The Dance in Place Congo", 1886): the dance involved "the booming of African drums and blast of huge wooden horns, the use of triangles, Jew's harps, rattles, banjo, and the slap of bare feet on earth". I believe it has even been performed using such actual instruments, though I don't have a source for that.
And finally, sleeping on a wet pillow is always an interesting experience... So is being told by your own sister that your playing is "abysmal".
