Trumpeter07 Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Quick what do you think would be the best music to put on the field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Hmm, I've been wondering the same thing myself. It should strike a balance between heavy hitting and techincal... it should have embedded slow sections... and it should have an awesome ending. The intro I'm not so sure about though.... should it just rip right into the show, or should it build? That, I am not sure of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinHorn Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Hmm, I've been wondering the same thing myself. It should strike a balance between heavy hitting and techincal... it should have embedded slow sections... and it should have an awesome ending. The intro I'm not so sure about though.... should it just rip right into the show, or should it build? That, I am not sure of. It depends on the show. Look at Niagara Falls It works for this show to rip right into it. But look at Harmonic Journey Wild Nights (second movement). It builds up into the intensity of it. So I guess it just depends. (anybody can give a better example for the build into intensity one name it please) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 The definition of a build up to intensity is Phantom Regiment 1996. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinHorn Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 The definition of a build up to intensity is Phantom Regiment 1996. Got a link for it? *edit* found one Phantom Regiment 1996 - Defiant Heart Video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 Sweet, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeter07 Posted December 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Ok let me know if this sounds good at all i have been thinking of a good BOA show to do you know something not seriuos but not to easy. I thought maybe trying The Lion King but i don't know let me know on some other ideas/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinHorn Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 Ok let me know if this sounds good at all i have been thinking of a good BOA show to do you know something not seriuos but not to easy. I thought maybe trying The Lion King but i don't know let me know on some other ideas/. While a Lion King show has great visual opporunity, I think you might need something a little more intense, but then again, our band doesn't participate in BOA, and I have never been to one of their competition, so what do I know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeter07 Posted December 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 Well i guess its a little tame but one of the main points of BOA is General Effect. I think a Lion King show music has great GE potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 And that is why I am not a big fan of the BOA system. Just my opinion though. Too much GE... and it's such a subjective category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson07 Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 And that is why I am not a big fan of the BOA system. Just my opinion though.Too much GE... and it's such a subjective category. i completely agree with you. i am okay with some GE but dont like how much BOA relies on GE for their overall scoring. but thats just me and yes, i realize that that is just how BOA does it and thats fine. i just dont like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yes, I understand your sentiment.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson07 Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 but back to the question, if i could turn any music into a marching show, i have always wanted to do a show with Star Wars music. it wouldnt be as cheezy as you are all thinking right now. i would have a vader and a skywalker dueling it out in the middle of the field, unless that got GE points, i dont know but i have always liked that music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Star Wars does feature some very nice scoring.. and a a lot of it is fairly challenging. It would be funny to have Luke get his hand cut off like in the movie... I mean, not actually, but make it look like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsstephenyo Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 a star wars show has great potential. too bad john williams is crazy about his own music and no band or corp could ever get the rights to use it (except for far and away... which i think he wrote??) music of david maslanka. *drools* combination of a child's garden of dreams and symphony no. 4. wow... beginning of first movement of child's garden... big nice brass fanfares finale from symphony no. 4. whew... would be one ofthe greatest shows ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Hmm, I think a nice, but unusual progression would be Holst's 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band: Chacone Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Augurs of Spring Mussorgysky's Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev Dmitri Shostakovich's Opus 110a: Allegro Molto Reprise of Chacone and Conclusion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidpowell Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Polovetsian Dances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindfulmusician Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Hmm, I think a nice, but unusual progression would be Holst's 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band: Chacone Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Augurs of Spring Mussorgysky's Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev Dmitri Shostakovich's Opus 110a: Allegro Molto Reprise of Chacone and Conclusion Oh man, that sounds like an intense show. I'd love to hear that. Anyway, I am still unsure of whether a show should dive head first into things, or gradually build up. In my show, which I still have to work on, I just dove straight into things. Perhaps a bit foolhardy, but, I'm still just a beginner, so, I can claim ignorance and naivete...lol. - mindfulmusician Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Ha, I'm not sure really... There are really good ways to go about starting balls out and lots of good ways of starting out delicately and building... my current work in progress builds into it, but that's just me. I may do the next one differently. who knows? But yeah, that selection of pieces would be rather intense. I have never heard a marching rendition of Shostakovich's op110; that's probably because it is incredibly technical though... I dunno. You would think a Drum Corp would want to tackle such a thing; surely the judges would be very impressed. That's just my thinking though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I<3thebox Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 whats up with John Williams??? If there are band arrangements of his music for concert why couldnt you use them for a show??? I mean anyone could play the Star Wars Suite for BOA Conc. Band Festival if they REALLY wanted to (lol) and then its on the DVD and BAM so is it a copyright issue? ohhhhhhhhh maybe its like ARRANGING the music for marching band...??? Thats a cryin shame cuz I listen to his orchestral music and I actually thinkg he would make an AMAZING MB writer - he really knows what to do with the brass and a lot of his woodwind work is interesting AND difficult (or vice versa lol) poooooooo on John Williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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