good music for euphonium duet

Imperial

Imperial

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Thanks everybody for your advices. They have been very helpful!

Now I have received Deep inside the temple. It's nice.
And for you how ask: yes it's available with piano acc. you can order it on Steven Meads homepage: www.euphonium.net
 
sevenhelz

sevenhelz

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neil, softly as i leave you is pretty manageable, only one or two fast twiddles with nice fingering. i think technically one part goes up to super f, but you can always drop that bar down an octave - it's only two notes and it sounds okay. the top euph does play sustained top cs but not too many. available for brass band or piano, i think.

think i'll be keeping an eye out for these other pieces now :D
xx
 
NeilW

NeilW

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Winwood music responded to email and have send me a catalogue too...

They do:

0068 Softly,As I leave you (with 3 other items) £11.95
0078 Czardas Album has Calon Lan arranged by Eric Ball as a duet £11.95 along with 3 other items.
0129 Childs' Choice Album has Chanson de Matin as a duet plus 3 other items.
0114 Arabesque by Joseph Turrin (somewhat high, aparantly)

I think a trip to Quainton (which isn't far from home) is in order to have a look at them and then decide, though the top one looks favourite at the moment (I guess I can probably "find" a super F if needed :) )

Neil.
 
KMJ Recordings

KMJ Recordings

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NeilW said:
Winwood music responded to email and have send me a catalogue too...

They do:

0068 Softly,As I leave you (with 3 other items) £11.95
0078 Czardas Album has Calon Lan arranged by Eric Ball as a duet £11.95 along with 3 other items.
0129 Childs' Choice Album has Chanson de Matin as a duet plus 3 other items.
0114 Arabesque by Joseph Turrin (somewhat high, aparantly)

I think a trip to Quainton (which isn't far from home) is in order to have a look at them and then decide, though the top one looks favourite at the moment (I guess I can probably "find" a super F if needed :) )

Neil.
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FWIW, the super F is in the last bar....the other player's sustaining a top C, and the unlucky one lips slurs up from a top F crotchet 4 penultimate bar to the, er, higher one ;)

The rest of it has a few top Cs floating around.
 
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euphonium1214

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Me (2nd euph) and 1st euph got a duet a while ago called Piece of Cake. It's great - not too hard and quite tuneful. We got it with the band accompaniament, but a piano accomp. is probs available. I'll try and find out the composer later.
 
nickjones

nickjones

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Imperial said:
I'm looking for some good euphonium duets. Preferably with piano accompanient.

I also looking for "romance" by John Phillips for two euphoniums. I know that piece was written especially for the childs brothers in 1989. And that it's recorded by them on the cd "euphonium music". but it seems impossible to find the sheet music.

Does anyone have a single clue of how to find out?
Who is John Phillips?
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I know this is an old thread , John Phillips is a composer from South Wales , am sure from Ammanford or Port Talbot , has written a few works for Band ( mainly for the National Youth Band of Wales and West Glam Youth) try the welsh composers website or the website for Welsh Arts I am sure it will have some further information on John Philips on ( www.wmic.org ) which is a brilliant resource on Welsh Music
 
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nathan

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romance

Imperial said:
I'm looking for some good euphonium duets. Preferably with piano accompanient.

I also looking for "romance" by John Phillips for two euphoniums. I know that piece was written especially for the childs brothers in 1989. And that it's recorded by them on the cd "euphonium music". but it seems impossible to find the sheet music.

Does anyone have a single clue of how to find out?
Who is John Phillips?
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Hi, a little late this reply but i only just entered this site and the gentleman you refer to was my father who sadly past away eleven years ago.His composition skills still brings marvelous memories to us here in Ammanford.
 
Di B

Di B

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Calon Lan and Softly are two good duets with piano accompianment.

If either euph player struggles with top C's I'd go for Calon Lan. If they can do top C's go for Softly.

The top F on the 2nd euph can be optional. You can do the octave jump an octave down or go from an F to an A, which then mirrors the opening bars. (I have done this on a concert before when I knew a top F wasn't going to come out!)
If the solo euph can get an F then you can swap over the last four bars - there are many ways around it ;-)
 
catto09

catto09

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KMJ Recordings said:
FWIW, the super F is in the last bar....the other player's sustaining a top C, and the unlucky one lips slurs up from a top F crotchet 4 penultimate bar to the, er, higher one ;)

The rest of it has a few top Cs floating around.
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Just to be awkward. I know this piece inside out - It's not a super F for a start. it goes from a top C, same as 1st sustained to the top F, so not quite as bad as the super F. That would be VERY difficult for anybody, even steven Mead and the Childs euphists
 
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wittig

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catto09 said:
Just to be awkward. I know this piece inside out - It's not a super F for a start. it goes from a top C, same as 1st sustained to the top F, so not quite as bad as the super F. That would be VERY difficult for anybody, even steven Mead and the Childs euphists
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I was going to add this very point. We played this at all of our Christmas Concerts this year and I was playing the top part (because I couldn't hit the top F in the second part), and played it fine at all of the concerts until the very last one where I fell off the top C at the end, then the principal went and hit the top F just to compound my embarrassment. ( I don't like playing up high anyway!!)
 
KMJ Recordings

KMJ Recordings

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Pedants ;)

OK, high F above top C, rather than a super F....but it's high enough that most people (with sense :D ) wouldn't want to be playing it as an encore as the last solo in a programme just before Minster....

I've still heard it finished with that F with the A above it though....and the gasps from the audience during the World Premiere of Moto Perpetuo with the high As and Cs were entertaining...whilst I sat on stage next to Graham McEvoy (the euph parts in the accompaniment are tacet) who had a look on his face of "and the point in that is....?"....

Quite probably the least played CD in my collection that one :hammer
 
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