February 2011
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January 2011
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This weekend at Honor Band, we played a piece of music that was unlike anything I have ever played in my entire musical career. The piece was Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945), composed by Daniel Bukvich. It was written as his master thesis, and tells the story of the bombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, at the end of World War II. There are four movements, Prologue, Seeds in the...
When someone calls DCI "marching band."
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Standing still never felt so good. The hot sun pooling sweat on my forehead, causing burns all over my body. Holding my arms up precisely likes everyone else’s, keeping my feet together — full attention. Finally, a command. Parade rest. Quickly snapping my arms to cross my chest, hands in fists. At the same time spreading my feet to about shoulder width. Then, finally, at...
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“Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and...”
– Lemony Snicket - The Composer is Dead
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“The violin section is divided into the First Violins, who have the trickier...”
– Lemony Snicket —“The Composer is Dead” (via dark-peppermint)
likeaghostlyballet asked: My clarinet teacher always told us to use 'serendipity' for quintuplets, though I don't really remember having words to help with anything else...maybe 'pineapple' for triplets once or twice, but generally my teachers just counted notes out with numbers (boring!)
Anonymous asked: While trying to learn a solo once, my director told me to think of "university" for a set of quintuplets.
My band director uses apple for eighth notes and...
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Anonymous asked: In middle school when we were learning triplets we had "hamburger" for triplets and "hotdog" for normal eight notes.
queenofconnemara asked: My music teacher occasionally uses animals to count.
chicken chicken, elephant elephant, alligator alligator, hippopotamus hippopotamus. And he claps with it too. It's adorable, really.
Chicken = eighth notes, elephant = triplets, alligator = sixteenth notes, and hippopotamus = thirty second notes.
chicken chicken, elephant elephant, alligator alligator, hippopotamus hippopotamus. And he claps with it too. It's adorable, really.
Chicken = eighth notes, elephant = triplets, alligator = sixteenth notes, and hippopotamus = thirty second notes.
i-live-to-let-you-fly-deactivat asked: One- ee- and- a- two- ee- and- a- three- ee
“Music is feeling then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in...”
– Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the Clavier (via outofochaosorder)
To count rhythms, does your band use:
1. One te, two te, three te…etc.
OR
1. One and two and three and…etc?
My band uses the latter, but I’m trying to figure out the most popular way to count rhythms. What does your band use?
