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Giligia ( a Song of Remembrance )

Euphonium make your first note D super in tune.

String bass, do your vibrato on the pizz. D its just a note but nontheless its still belong to the music, make it special make it work, because you are the lowest sound in this triangle at this particulat potion.

Percussion, i havent heard from you this very important part, the chimes from the brginning. please play it =)

Baritone sax to play the all cue notes in this music.

flutes and saxophone, although its written p in the beginning, do play mf, there is no problem being heard here.

clarinet, when you come in on bar 4, make it a p, crescendo towards the B on bar 6 and come down. to G. make contours in your music.

horn solo in bar6, you do have a crescendo poco, make it obvious, have big contrast in your music.

all to dim and let the clarinet come in on bar 13, make them the limelight. the only section who will be fighting with them is the bass clarinet and the baritone sax and the tube, nontheless, the clarinet is still the lead, listen to them, flow with them.

all to listen to oboe, 1st clarinet and 2nd alto sax at this very particular point, all this croup are suppose to climax your phrase at bar 23 2nd beat.

i will do a rit before bar32

1st clarinet tenor sax and baritone sax to play the cue notes pertaining to bsn and oboe to stengthen up the ensemble.

i want all tuba to come in on bar 37 to make a sig. in the music as we are lack of bsn. .

2 bars before 52, ww to have clear running notes, i will hear from you this saturday.

the ww have already gotten your light in the beginning of the music, now the second section belongs to the brass section. the ww have to soft down and listen to the trumpet who has the leading notes and melody.

the horns at this particular point of time should SOAR !!!! only you have the part, your good friend saxophone have already betray you and left you for the black black clarinet..

the percussion should create the splash effect on the music to let people feel WOW !!! at this particular point of time though there is more to come.

no voices should die down, maintain your sound and strength and carry on to 85-86

all should know that after that you get alot bars of rest while the ww continues.
while dim, all should also understand that soft sound doesnt mean weak sound... make your sound solid, beautiful, sonore yet soft. hao bu hao?

thats all for giligia, just remember to balance for this song and create the very very sad effect like our whole music room got eaten by the termite family. its very sad right? it should be that sad. =(

Alvamar Overture

just like what we always do in practice, hit the first note with balance... the lower voices to make a difference in marcato, accent and normal notes.

the ww, i realise that you guys are getting the AZRI terminal disease. dont play your staccato too short !! just bum bum bum not tu/ tu/ tu/

horns, tbone, euph to archieve the same articulation from 4 bars before section 1

melody to come in thick and warm at the same time have the musical contour in your music.

tpts to be sharp and clear not short! 1st tpt to blend in at section2

saxes and the horns to merge with the melody .. its when 2 become 1, think BIG BIG Sound with the melody.

melody line at section 4 should not be different from the beginning melody, in term of melodic contour.

section 5 ... make sure i have all the articulations right, when it comes to staccato, i want it staccato, not short but nice staccato.

other then that we are all fine till section 10, 4 bars before meno mosso, i should hear the sax horns and euph to come out.

understand the word warmly in section 10 people, be sensitive to all these melody when you have it, though some may have lots of melody, its a privilege, play it nicely ... tpt hao bu hao ?

all to watch your key signature at section 12, i spot some wrong notes here and there. so do take care of what you are playing.

all to sus. your volume at section 13 we only come down before section 14. and be mindful of the euph solo at 3 bars before tempo primo.

we all should be careful of the big explosion 2 bars before section 15, i dont want a sudden explosion but a gradual explosion or rather sparks that lead into that explosion.

all should be well till the 3/4 bar leading to section 21, not that we dont play correctly but we have to join it. we shall do it on saturday.

and thats all for alvamar, i just have to say im proud of the ww in able to play this portion in just 2 months time, good job! for this song, the brasses you have to buck up, day by day i realise the solid sound that we all have is deproving. we no longer have that big fat sound any more or rather i should say, some times have some times dont have. depend on mood.

i believe if its music that we are making, we should all put away all admin stuffs and enjoy every bit of it. enjoy the sound that you produce, feel the rhythm that you play, we must tear in order to make the audience tears. so i urge you guys to put in great amount of effort to feel the music. only then we would be able to gain the asthetic value in the music we are making.

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JOEY CHIAN