Have any of your high schools played Incantation and dance?

AnglOfMercy · Post by **AnglOfMercy** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:32 pm

My high school played both Incantation and Dance and Variations on a Korean Folk Song. I played EE flat contra bass clarinet(yes it does exist) but I had to transpose it in less than a day from BB flat contra bass clarinet. That was for Wind Ensemble where we played Incatation and Dance and that rocked! I played the Korean Folk Song for Wind Symphony on B flat and trust me, on first, it isn't that easy. Gotta quick fingers. I think probably the most challenging song you can play is Aegean Festival Overture. Too many time changes and offset rythms that follow through. All those music pieces aren't that hard if you practice it.

bgirl781 · Post by **bgirl781** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:01 pm

Phantom Phan wrote:Heh! I sure did. Variations of a Korean Folksong, the two Holst suites, and Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite. You could probably list more, like Lincolnshire Posy. Everyone plays those. Multiple times, in my case.

If by Holst, you mean the planets, then we sight-read Mars once in class, and we have it and Jupiter in our folders. However, I don't recognize any of the other standards as things we've played...

Hostrauser · Post by **Hostrauser** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:13 pm

bgirl781 wrote:
Phantom Phan wrote:the two Holst suites
If by Holst, you mean the planets

No, by Holst I mean First Suite in Eb for Military Band, and Second Suite in F for Military Band.

bgirl781 · Post by **bgirl781** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:55 pm

Phantom Phan wrote:
bgirl781 wrote:
Phantom Phan wrote:the two Holst suites
If by Holst, you mean the planets
No, by Holst I mean First Suite in Eb for Military Band, and Second Suite in F for Military Band.

Then we haven't played any! I don't even think I've heard of any of them...

PercussionAndAllThatJazz · Post by **PercussionAndAllThatJazz** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:50 pm

Phantom Phan wrote:Heh! I sure did. Variations of a Korean Folksong, the two Holst suites, and Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite. You could probably list more, like Lincolnshire Posy. Everyone plays those. Multiple times, in my case.

You said it!
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eternalbando · Post by **eternalbando** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:24 pm

El Dorado's concert band(symphonic band?) played Variations on a Koren Folk Song for festival last year. It's a pretty interesting piece...lol.

wonderbread2006 · Post by **wonderbread2006** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:34 pm

my high school played incantation and dance and variation on a korean folk song for field show in 2003. it was pretty good.

musiclife · Post by **musiclife** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:10 pm

i havent played any of those two pieces................................

Lela · Post by **Lela** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:37 pm

We played Incantation and Dance my freshman year. Good learning experience... learned that our percussionists don't have any rythym ><

We have Folk Song in our folder too, but we havn't preformed it. I get seventeen come sunday (the 1st move) stuck in my head all the same! My friend Corey and I will sing it together between classes hehe

swuster · Post by **swuster** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:15 am

i believe i played it last year in a middle school honor band

Jakob der ludner · Post by **Jakob der ludner** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:07 am

Whoa, everyone's played Variations. We played it last year, which is the same year our rival John Burroughs did it for their field show, which caused a joke to go around that we're copycats (interestingly, both our wind ensembles are doing Vesuvius. Those copying knaves!)

Paradoxical Wit · Post by **Paradoxical Wit** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:42 pm

U Guys are gonna be like wow but my middle school band played and performed incantation and dance. HAHA it was a hard but fun piece

Ryan H. Turner · Post by **Ryan H. Turner** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:50 pm

I.A.D. is not allowed to be played without a competent percussion section. Especially the person on the "whip".

Which I was honored to play at PCC when I was up there back in 89?? Anyway, I was one of 2 euphonium players--the other one being very good. And we were short on percussionists. So I got to play the "whip" part. I was loud. Of course.

Lela · Post by **Lela** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:21 pm

RyanTurner wrote:I.A.D. is not allowed to be played without a competent percussion section. Especially the person on the "whip".

Haha no doubt! The year we played IAD our whip percussionist had no rhythym. I have no idea how he even got to be a percussionist. It was terrible. The WHOLE band could clap the rythym and the person who actually had the part couldn't do it for more than 4 measures in a row to save his life. Luckily by preformance time (and like a bajillion hours of practicing at home and in class) he was able to do it.

nobodyspecial · Post by **nobodyspecial** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:48 pm

our symphonic band or Wind II (our lower 2 groups) played both of those songs- I didn't play them except helping them out, so I don't really remember much...

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Have any of your high schools played Incantation and dance?

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