sdhedrick
04-01-2008, 02:15 AM
Hello again. I haven't posted here in awhile. The sax quartet I was in sorta stop practicing and kinda dissolved and I was only trying my hand at arranging while playing in the group. But recently, I fell in love with a piece we play in our Symphonic Band and out of shear boredom basically, I wanted to try arranging it for sax quartet to see how it sounds.
The piece is Vientos Y Tangos by Mark Gandolfi. This is a very cool symphonic band piece (IMO) and also quite difficult. The sax arrangement I'd say is 80 percent medium difficult and 20 percent very difficult. (there are some really tough passages).
I have a recording of this at: http://www.scotthedrick.org/esax.htm (there's two recordings of Vientos there.. the one I did for sax quartet and attempted to record on my yamaha wind controller and the other is the USAF heritage band playing it).
Now, don't rip my recording please! I just recorded it to see how the quartet could sound and I didn't really practice the parts. In fact, two passages were so hard that I didn't bother recording them live, but cheated and put in my computer playing them.. :)
The quartet version really lacks the spark that the symphonic band piece has (percussion are pretty key in this piece), but it's still a pretty cool tango in my opinion.
The parts are attached if anyone has a quartet that wants to play thru an 11 minute, modern Tango. :)
Scott
The piece is Vientos Y Tangos by Mark Gandolfi. This is a very cool symphonic band piece (IMO) and also quite difficult. The sax arrangement I'd say is 80 percent medium difficult and 20 percent very difficult. (there are some really tough passages).
I have a recording of this at: http://www.scotthedrick.org/esax.htm (there's two recordings of Vientos there.. the one I did for sax quartet and attempted to record on my yamaha wind controller and the other is the USAF heritage band playing it).
Now, don't rip my recording please! I just recorded it to see how the quartet could sound and I didn't really practice the parts. In fact, two passages were so hard that I didn't bother recording them live, but cheated and put in my computer playing them.. :)
The quartet version really lacks the spark that the symphonic band piece has (percussion are pretty key in this piece), but it's still a pretty cool tango in my opinion.
The parts are attached if anyone has a quartet that wants to play thru an 11 minute, modern Tango. :)
Scott