Armenian Dances - Alfred Reed (part 2)

[sushicrazy724]

I'm a clarinet in second band at my high school. We're learning this right now. I love all the woodwind runs :)

[Ninjasniper21]

We're doing this in my wind ensemble! So much fun! I really love the tuba parts!

[kevinjonasrocksout]

I'm in the Wind Ensemble for my high school and we're learning this song right now! We just started working on this part of the song today and it's so much fun!! If we play this at the Heritage Fesetival it's gonna be amazing!!

[Holycrap27]

1:10 reminds me of Angry Birds lol

[MrUhNonUhMuhs]

Sweet! We're playing this in marching band

[Erikwuerflein]

1:05

i love it

[Flagdread]

great piece!

also i declaire it the unoffical theam to just cause 2!!

[texce2008]

This brings back alot of memories from High School band many years ago. Played this my junior year.

[rtdilo]

woah! nice! sounds so light

[MrSamoorian]

It's an amazingly powerful rendition of a song by a composer who died tragically as a result of the Turkish holocaust of his Armenian nation in 1915-1923. You have brought him to life through Alfred Reed's interpretation. Bravo!

[dudeinblack24]

I'm playing this next year in our wind symphony!! Hopefully

[Superpapermariofreek]

Played this this year as a freshman in high school. It is truly amazing!

[Lolas1294]

OMG...my director wants out symphonic band to play this and I'm so pumped..I have the music and everything. Sadly we don't have an oboe. But, I'm playing the oboe cues on clarinet:) Super excited now:)

[alnava10]

best part of the song :D

[ljrolyat]

percussion ftw.

[hitdog867]

why was the front row not full?

[REDeyedTREEfrog55]

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[skwaag5233]

baritone solo ftw i live for the moment i get to play 0:35

[666MusicIsLife666]

@skwaag5233 hahaha lived the dream last year sooo fun to play that part!

[Raklryja]

The best part? Certainly

[jeanneowens]

Tear it down, man!! The conductor is gettin DOWN BABY!!! Awesome job. I will post to my favorites. Thank you!

[HorseRidin94]

We're playing this for state honor band. it's gonna take soooooo much work. :) oh, well.

[shiipon3]

すごーぃ´д｀

[ebeniston]

1:30 to the end, I challenge you to play the flute part. I CHALLENGE YOU.

[Spock356]

@ebeniston I have, and it is HARD. It was my first year in Wind Ensemble, and this was the first piece we played. I freaked out. XD It took me about 3 months to actually get it right, and it wasn't anywhere near this tempo until just about two weeks before the concert.

[StillHasRandom]

@TwilightLover02 if you look, there is a bassoon right next to the bass clarinet...

[kxaxrxsxoxnx]

I'm confused because when my band plays Armenian Dances, there are bassoon parts, and in this video, it seems that the oboe has those certain bassoon parts. :/

[TwilightLover02]

@kxaxrxsxoxnx All the bassoon solo parts and such are in the english horn part. If you look, their aren't any bassoons in this band.

[TwilightLover02]

@kxaxrxsxoxnx In this one, the bassoon parts are played by the English Horn. I play the oboe and english horn and when I played this song over the summer the english horn part has cues for the bassoon part and thats what happened here.

[A7XLicksMyNuts]

the Alto/French Horn theme at :50 sounds like something out of paper mario

[acemarksman9]

0:50 Best harmony part ever written. It's so fun to play :D

and 1:51! such great dynamic contrast! <3

[matthewh2012]

the trombone is so ballzy. our band cant play with edge and i do it anyway just because it sounds so much better

[tinnytintinman]

00:18 = Yes.

[minus1focus]

C Dub, u know

[MrSwann93]

i'm a sophomore in high school and our wind ensemble is playing this. i have the tuba part :) very good and exciting song

[gonatego2]

@MrSwann93 I played the Tuba part of this years ago. It is a lot of fun ;)

[joehoe222]

@rlga5 but we have a life, you are just whining on other films to get a life!

[rlga5]

I didn't quite understand "you are just whining on other films to get a life". But I actually do have a life. And a job. And I'm fairly certain it pays more than any job you will ever have.

[joehoe222]

@rlga5 We will see... But don't forget: There is more in life than money

[yonatones88]

Stop being close minded and appreciate sound in any form its provided in.

[rlga5]

@yonatones88 I appreciate this song. I love it! I fact, I played the french horn part as a college student.

[RocketRodder]

@rlga5 If you don't like it you can leave. =)

[rlga5]

@RocketRodder I left a while ago. Gosh, stop being such a whiny Jew.

[OboevsSaxophone]

@rlga5 Obvious troll is obvious :D

[Kalousekc]

my high school band played this last year, and we played this piece in about 11 minutes 30 seconds. It's good though, just seems slow to me!

[falconclarinet]

We're playing this song in my high school's second band right now. This last part is my favorite, it's SO freaking epic. And the Arabian-sounding accidentals (especially that part in measure 231 in the part 1 video right before this part) sound so mysterious and awesome!! I can't get over how cool this piece is. It's been stuck in my head all day ^_^;;

[blind2bliss]

i am first chair alto sax at my school and i LOVED this song but we turned it in cuz the rest of the band cant play it :/

[srorasco1]

@blind2bliss sucks balls

[dzulfadzwan89]

wow.....

what a beautiful playing..

fantastic..

conductur was so good.....

i love the style of the conducting..

congrats.........

[Dragonastra]

heh heh. 1:30 the Conductor's getting really into it.

We tried playing it at this pace. Just this part. It was fun :3

[thrillchick2fast4u]

Our band played this at a competition last year, and we got first with a grade of superior. Really gave our conductor a shock. Lol. I love the horn part in this song! <3

[Spock356]

wow, we're playing this in our wind ensemble, and we're nowhere near this pace, but I can still barely play it right. 0_o

[LostDreams1991]

Haha, I played this last year in Wind Ensemble and we actually managed to play it about this pace. It's mainly due to the woodwinds carrying the song though. Such an imbalanced band. Super woodwinds. Mediocre brass (excluding 1st. Astronomical jump in talent).

[hectordonis]

Creo que deberías renombrar los títulos, ya que tienes dos videos con los nombres "Part 1" y "Part 2", y en realidad los dos forman parte de la Primera Parte de las Danzas Armenias.

Ya sé que lo has puesto para distinguir las dos partes (dos videos) de la Primera Parte (obra), pero podrías indicar algo como "Part I (part 1)" y "Part I (part 2)".

[yuskei3]

For the people who can't read Spanish, hectordonis is saying that the video names may be confusing, since Armenian Dances itself is composed of more than one part. The video names may cause people to think that they are the first and second parts of the whole Armenian Dances piece, but the two videos are of Armenian Dances Part I, so they should be renamed Armenian Dances Part I(part 1) and Armenian Dance Part I(part 2)

[hectordonis]

Allright. This is the same that I said.

[ivalice1980]

This whole piece is classic, but I think this section is easily one of the most entertaining moments ever written for band.

[louchurchin]

This is one of the best balanced ensemble I'm ever heard play this part of Armenian Dances. I actually hear the runs in the high woodwinds.

[UndecidedRPGplayer]

You sir, are a fool. The tone was actually very good. I have a very strong feeling they played this better than you can.

[nintendude7cubed]

yeah this song sounds exactly like its supposed to.

[rki0303030303]

good!!

[jonae444]

i love the furioso in this song..its so fun to play.

alto sax 1 REPRESENT

[im2cow4u]

Alto sax 1 too!

Gotta love how in the Furioso the only natural note is like B

everything else is soo abnormal, but its a hella lot fun, especially because for about 20 measures theres absolutely no time to take a decent breath!

[nintendude7cubed]

As a bassoonist, This piece is a godsend!!! The soli (in part 1) really perfectly matches the characteristics of the bassoon sound. Plus we play the furioso sixteenth note licks at the end. They're so much fun. I played this in state honors band here in wisconsin so it sounds just fine!

[vandorenspaz]

I'm in the state honors band in Wi, too! :) The clarinet soli around 0:50 to 1:07 is beast! This piece of music is all around fantastic for the whole ensemble. :D

[candykisses856]

Most definitely! I play the clarinet, too and we did this song in my college's symphonic band last semester and it took a LOT of work to get that done right and up to speed!!!

[roscoralf]

When I played the bass-trombone the way these guys do, I was reprimanded for being too loud.

[greenhearts17]

Great Song!! =]

I played this my senior yr!! =]

[mauri1394]

ha, this song is the funnest to play (you should see the percussion of our high school band) I'm glad i'm in wind enssemble cuz i get to play awesome songs likie this. I play tuba and my favorite part is like from186-end :D (and 402-awesome :D)

[ericlawhammer]

needed way, WAY more horn on the trill at the end. just my opinion.

[WestDeAngelo]

No, more cowbell. All the time. Forever

[samabc007700007700]

I love this song very much.I will play this song this month.I play the tuba part.

I think 30 is too slow.I think it can be more faster.

[goldmund46]

congratulations - very fine interpretaion!

[eandj213]

AMAZING!!

[timmetje04]

I Think this is not so good. The interpetation is not good. It's to slow. To much trompet, trombone, bas. On 1.30min. there is al acceleration, but i've heard im not. The end is also to slow.

[Governator33]

i agree. the balance isn't great and the tempos are off.

[Shiekhanboy]

Furioso at 1:30. There is a transition in measure 357.

The trumpets sped up the tempo on the duet at 381 and didn't really hear cornet 2. (which is what i play.)

[im2cow4u]

1:31-1:39 = Furioso = Madness!

[vmkPrincessAri]

wait...were you playing with this band? fantastic job!!! =]

[vmkPrincessAri]

we're playing that this year for nyssma. i really like this piece. you did a great job recording it!i just played along with this, it actually helped. thanks! =]

[texce2008]

I played this with my high school band in 1990. We had a blast with it and won all of our contests that year.

[mattbette]

stop lurking youtube and get a life

[akm10293]

this is really well played :) I played it in my high school's band a couple of years ago, and as I was a sophomore flute player, I didn't get to totally enjoy it because I was too focused on getting all of the notes :) I'm glad I found this!

[tboneking5]

is it just me or does there sound as an ensemble not have enough depth to it,There sound is kinda shallow to me

[vanquished09]

As a fellow trombone player, I am quite disappointed in your grammar. THEIR sound may seem sort of shallow, but the song is naturally light anyways, so that may be why. That's how it sounded when I played it at least...

[stephzimm]

alfred reed obviously wrote this piece as a dance, like you said it's light. except for that beautiful chorale part but at measure 224 where the tempo picks up parts of it are supposed to sound like laughing. it's so cool if you listen for it. it's around measure 106 where the flutes have this little like haha thing going on and then the rest of band picks it up. lol sorry i just rambled hahah :-)

[adanedhel13]

heybby

wooow im naked right now! PB

[dylz]

loved this piece... god, that clarinet part at 0:50 was so hard. :-P

[soccerfreak0022]

omg!!! Hell Yeah!!!! i'm a freshman and our wind ensamble is playing it... but no one knows what they're doing.........

[Anitax33]

amazing!

[DavidYerden]

I played this in the Arizona all-state band back in 1976...brings back a lot of good memories. I really like this movement.

[bitterazn52]

i absolutely hate how the music is out of sync with the the video.......

[ketcherside]

Love this song. I was in IMEA District and we played this song. Unfortunately, I had the 3rd Clarinet part :P I'm going to prepare much sooner this year. This ensemble blew ours out of the water though.

Kudos!

[SaxyBoy91]

which IMEA district were you in?

[HIkeda126]

I personally didn't like the first 10 seconds of this vid with the clarinet line. The articulations were a little different and it kinda through off the style. Sorry, I'm a clarinetist! :P

But other than that, I think this ensemble is fantastic! Great job on the performance!

[LittleBobMarley]

I'm clarinetist too!! jaja, i think the clarinets are also stridents in final, but good in general.

Listen a spanish version and cry...

Spanish are very fans of exageration in the ''forte forte''.

Sorry, I'm spanish!!

[yesesoyyo]

This band is Spanish. I like this.

[mchsspartans]

i love this song i attend marian catholic high school and i am in the cincert winds there and we played this and it sounds almost identical to this band and we are only high school kids. and in some people's opinoins when played this at state at ISU they said we sounded better than UofI who the piece was actually written for bravo to your soloist very good musicianship wonderful intonation.

[EDGEMASTER84]

TOO MANY NOTES. LOL

[LittleBobMarley]

freaky...

¿lol?

[xxcrazyxxcocoxx]

omg that was amazing!! my played that song for our festival!!! we werent so precise but we got 2 excellents and 2 superiors! =] i played the clarinet! my god.. reed gives some crazy ass parts for the clarinets.. runs one after another after another.. =] but it was fun =]

[adithya0427]

*sighs*

i wish our band was still playing this.

what a great piece.

[parquar]

Ours played it and I played pt 2 in all county. If you think this is hard then you will cry when you hear pt 2.