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Color contrasts for horn octet with optional tuba

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Composer: 
Hyde, George W.
Availability: 
Not Available
Sheet Music Format: 

A4, Score (21) & parts (4x2+4x3=20, plus optional tuba, 1, total=21)

Players
Number of Players: 
8
Additional Players: 
0
Additional Equipment: 
Straight mutes, fiber mutes, brass mutes
Approximate Duration: 
4
Technical Difficulty: 
Difficult
Structure/Movements: 
One movement.
Clefs: 
Treble, bass
Key signatures: 
None
Meters: 
C, 2/4
Range: 
Horn 1: g - c3
Horn 2: g - bb2
Horn 3: d - f2
Horn 4: G - f2
Horn 5: f - bb2
Horn 6: c - f2
Horn 7: c - d2
Horn 8: Ab - b1
Performance Notes: 

The title, and a list of instructions as found on the parts should suffice to give a good idea of what this piece sounds like:

-          Fiber mute

-          Ppen

-          Stopped

-          Dark tone

-          Normal tone

-          3/4 closed

-          Remove F horn tuning slide

-          Open F horn slide

-          (Remove a different slide for each part, then play that note)

-          Finger nails on valve slides

-          Brassy

-          Finger nails on bell

-          Reverse mouthpiece

-          Brass mute

 

Or, as Nancy Joy put it: “You do everything, except stand on your head, on the horn in that piece”.

Credits: 

Access to review score: Nancy Joy (NMSU)