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Review Of Encounters II For Solo Tuba By William Kraft

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The first piece that author chosen for a master degree recital as a main piece is titled as “Encounters II for Solo Tuba” by William Kraft. This piece is original written for an iconic 20th century tuba virtuoso “Roger Bobo” in December 1966 while they both, Roger Bobo and William Kraft, took a position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. An ENCOUNTER II for Solo Tuba is a member of Williams Kraft’s Encounter series. This piece is specific contains many extremely difficult techniques for tuba such as an extreme wide-range of the instrument, a complicated dissonant jump intervals, multi-phonics, glissandi, and rapid half-valves technique. Those techniques are big development and challenge to the author and other tuba player in Thailand in term …show more content…

Moreover, author also would like to accrue the repertoire genre in Thailand. Therefore, author would like to wider more multitudinous genre of music. Especially for an atonal music genre, which has been performed less in this pass decades in Thailand. Personally, author is strongly believed that the wider range of repertoire benefit a musician in many ways.
The second piece is an iconic 20th century concerto composed by an iconic of Hollywood film music composer “John Williams”. This piece is municipal in a Concerto category. Beside Ralph Vaughan Williams’ tuba concerto, which is a required piece for all replacement Orchestra audition nowadays, this piece is the icon of the 20th century concerto. This piece is a part of his concerto series which include; tuba, clarinet, violin, …show more content…

With no argument, nowadays, we are living in a world of a Germanic music. It is very importance to understand the characteristic of brass playing in a German style to set up the stylistic of modern music concept. Although this piece was compose during the composer life in the Yale University whence that time he was clearly set the music style to Neo-classical music. Therefore, the Sonata for tuba and piano compose by Paul Hindemith is the very early piece for solo tuba to set the modern characteristic of the modern tuba playing concept, which is difference concept from R.V. Williams’s tuba concerto that the composer composed for the Harmonica to solo with the orchestra in the first place. As Paul Hindemith is a music theory teacher, therefore in this piece of music, the players demand to follow the manuscript as precise as they can. It is a worthy idea to learn the piece that state the concept and required to play exact as the composer

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