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If I were to write a song that was
called, "Tame the Savage Sea," I would start it out calm
with the clarinets blowing through the instrument to make a
wind sound. Then I would crescendo up into a huge storm
where I'd use a thunder rod and many drum rolls. I would
have the brass playing very deep and loud as the flutes play
a high trill. Then, at the peak of excitement, I would go
suddenly to the beginning tempo and melody for four measures
before a huge crescendo to fff in the last measure
and ending suddenly.
--David M. (percussion - grade 8)
If I were to write a piece called, "Tame
the Savage Sea," I would start out portraying the sea. I
would do this by having drum and low winds do a steady beat,
as if the savage waves are constantly beating back and
forth. Then I would do a soft, but low, maybe saxophone,
part and gradually getting louder as if a mysterious
sorcerer is approaching. As he gets closer to the sea,
suspense builds and flutes play high notes. When the person
reaches the shore, all music suddenly stops, then flutes or
clarinets will start with a lighthearted melody. This is
sort of like they're teasing and playing with the waves.
Eventually, suspense will build again, like the person is
battling with the sea. The piece will go out with a bang
because one of them wins. The whole piece will be kind of
mysterious and will become very intense when the scene is
mid-battle. --Attrace
C. (French horn - grade 8)
If I wrote "Tame the Savage Sea," I would
start out with the low winds and saxes (the waves booming
against the hull of the schooner), with snare drum and
trumpet to punctuate the sounds. After a little bit, I would
add flutes, clarinets and oboes as the shrieking wind. If
they play high and shriekily enough, it would sound like
howling wind. I then would have a few trumpets "yelling"
back and forth across the gale, like crew members of the
ship. Then I would have snare drum (with the snare on) tap
out sharp, staccato notes, like wood breaking.
After a little bit, the storm would peter
out and the time signature would change to 6/8 to give the
music a limping feel to it, like a broken, battered ship
coming into port. Then it would get loud again, as the
people in the harbor saw that the ship was alive (every
instrument) and it would end abruptly.
--Alison vR (flute -
grade 8)
If I was the composer of "Tame the Savage
Sea," I would base it on other pieces I had played before,
like "Ghost Fleet". I think I would make the piece start out
calmly, but then make it seem like a storm was rolling into
a little bay. The storm will keep on building up until havoc
broke loose. There would be huge waves, lots of lightening
and thunder and then suddenly it will become calm again. It
would be like nothing had happened in that little
bay.
To start the piece out, I would probably
use flutes and clarinets and then start building up with
trumpets, low winds and saxophones. that would be the clouds
rolling in. The lightening and thunder will be made with
percussion. After everyone had built up, I would suddenly
drop it back down to the clarinets and flutes so they could
end it like they had started it.
--Nick K. (trumpet -
grade 8)
- I would put some choppy rhythms in to
make it sound like a "savage sea", such as
triplets.
- The flutes might have some louder,
long notes to sound like hard winds, almost like a
whistling wind.
- I would put some hard accents in a
rhythmic patter for part of the trumpets to sound like
waves crashing, but with rhythm.
- The percussion would have shakers to
sound like the crashing.
- The low winds might have some low,
long notes that go up and down, to be like a HUGE ship
making its way through.
- There might be a huge gong hit for
when the sea settles and the sun starts to come
out. --Teresa M.
(clarinet - grade 7)
If I were writing a song called, "Tame
the Savage Sea," I would do many things. One thing that I
would do is have it start with high pitched flutes playing
fast, like a sunny day. Then I would have the brass roll in
with a low pitch, like the storm is rolling in. It would be
a crescendo. Then I would have crash cymbals, like
lightening. It would be an all out storm of brass, bass
drums, timpani, crashes and tom-toms. Then I would have a
"conversation" between the flutes and the storm. Then it
would go back to
flutes. --Matt B.
(percussion - grade 8)
If I were writing a piece named, "Tame
the Savage Sea," I would have a quiet part at the beginning,
a loud and fast part in the middle, and a quiet part at the
end. I would have low flute parts at the beginning and end
with clarinets to impersonate the tame sea. In the middle, I
would have the trumpets and flutes playing really high, fast
notes and the low winds lower and playing slurred notes to
impersonate what is really under the sea - just calm waters.
I think I would have the saxophones play a large range and
be quieter than the flutes and the trumpets, and be like a
boat being tossed
around. --Tally L. (tuba
- grade 7)
If I were a composer and I was writing a
piece called, "Tame the Savage Sea," there would be a whole
story behind it. It would start out nice and calmly and soon
after, a storm would start. It would rise in power slowly.
with lightening, thunder, rain and the pounding of waves.
Every so often to "tame" the sea or storm, flutes or
clarinets would come in and act like a beam of sunlight
trying to break through the clouds. The sea would be
whirlpools and huge waves with strong rip tides. It would
probably begin with the flutes, clarinets, and maybe alto
sax at piano, and build up the storm with the low winds and
sharp brass instruments. there would be a lot of crescendos,
decrescendos and accents to make the audience on the edge of
their seats. There would be soft sections as well as loud
sections so that the audience wouldn't stop listening. To
conclude, my piece would be a mixture of techniques and
instruments. --Katie K
(French horn - grade 8)
If I were the composer of, "Tame the
Savage Sea," I would be sure to show just how savage the sea
can sometimes become, and what kind of strength is needed to
tame it. The more angry sections would probably have very
different parts in the different instruments, with low winds
creating a deep bass for the rest of the instruments. The
flutes and clarinets would be working on scales, up and
down, like a ship rocking back and forth. There would be
cymbals to imitate lightening and bass drum hits for
thunder. Meanwhile, the trumpets might be doing a melody
that seems strong and powerful. At the end, there would be a
coda that is "the next day" when the sea has settled. This
would be peaceful and would end the piece with a calm long
note. --Andrew B. (flute
- grade 8)
If I wrote a piece with this title, I
would try to make it sound very loud and wild at the
beginning, but then calm down as the sea was being tamed. In
between these two periods of the song there would be
bouncing back and forth between wild and calm as if someone
was fighting. I would have the low winds and bass drum be
the wild sea and flutes and clarinets the calm sea. The
saxes and trumpets could be trying to make the low winds
into flutes and clarinets. The whole piece would not be like
that though, because the audience would become bored. That's
what the piece would be like if I wrote
it. --Claire L. (tenor
sax - grade 7)
If I were to write a piece with this
name, I would have the bass drum play a lot to get the loud,
booming sound of thunder (or timpani). I would have the
flutes play high notes to get the sound of the wind along
with the saxes because of their almost eerie sound. And I
would have the trumpets play notes around the mid-G range.
The song would be fast paced with many staccatos. At the
end, I would have it sound like a new day
breaking. --Evan G
(trumpet - grade 8)
If I were writing this piece, the start
would try to imply a small boat in the middle of a huge
storm. The two halves of the band might have a loud, violent
"call and response" like waves crashing. Timpani, bass drum
and snares with their snares off, would try to make thunder.
Flutes might try to make sudden loud, high notes, like
lightening flashes. It would get louder and louder, until it
would suddenly stop, like the passengers were knocked out or
passed out from exhaustion, then it would start a quieter
section to invoke the image of a flat sea. Somehow there
would be the sound of seagulls. Maybe the clarinets could do
that. --Galen (bari sax
- grade 8)
If I wrote this piece it would sound like
a ship on a peaceful voyage and then winds pick up and the
clouds turn black, waves get huge and it is crazy and the
song would end with a bang. I would do this by making the
parts sound messy together, but blend. For instance, C and E
blend well so one flute could be playing a C and the other
an E, but their rhythm would be hectic and uneven. That
would create the storm. Also, I would have the drums
interpreting rain, wind, thunder and lightening. When it is
a peaceful song in the beginning, I would have the wind
instruments playing a sweet melody and imitate soft waves
and the percussion would be softly patting on the snares and
playing xylophone. --Emily P.
(flute - grade 7)
I might start with a gentle, but not
slow, flute part. This is the sunrise. The low winds would
come in with long, gentle notes, the calm sea. Then
everything starts to go out of whack. The trumpets,
clarinets and saxes come in, playing a more aggressive,
stormy part. The flutes switch to playing staccato notes
that imitate rain. The low winds are the thunder, rolling
through occasionally, then the trumpets are the brave
conquistadors, majestically playing out a heroic tune. The
storm sounds die down as the trumpets continue and finally
we end with the low winds imitating the calm
sea. --Laura D.
(flute - grade 8)
12/21/2004
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