Arabesque by Samuel R. Hazo
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2016
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Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters Association for the 2008 All-State High School Honor Band, this stunning work from the pen of Samuel Hazo is a tour de force of Middle Eastern sounds for the contemporary wind band. From delicate and sensual soloistic writing to full-blown ensemble passages with rapid fire tutti rhythms and frenzied percussion, here is a rewarding piece with drama and depth that will be the high point of any concert or festival program. Period!
Audio recorded live by the 2008 North Carolina 11-12 All-State Honor Band - Samuel R. Hazo, conductor
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“give the woodwinds hell.”
-Samuel R. Hazo
-Also Samuel R. Hazo, "Give trombones hell."
@@ThatOneBlackN-sy4hhREAL
bro he made the trumpets basically just play the clarinet part
I’m screwed as a flute player, I can say that
WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE DESERT WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Don't quote me on this, but we need more trumpet" -Samuel R. Hazo
the funny thing is he probably said that XD
"that's pretty good, but let's bring the whole thing up an octave"
why did you quote him on it?
there is no such thing as too many trumpets
Elliot Wallis wrong
me listening to arabesque: "wow so cool, id love to play this"
director: *handing out arabesque*
also me: *surprised pikachu face*
Lmfaoooooooo it’s the most beautiful thing to play tho
Lmfao I’m screaming
I wanted to play it so bad and he handed out arabian dances 😐
@@reagansheets9431 oh my god we played this on smart music because of covid 😭
everybody gangsta until 32nd note scales
The conductor handed this piece out in my band. I was happy until I remembered I was first flute.
RIP me
Practice practice practice
How did it go?
IM THE OBOE, half the notes many professional oboeists struggle playing, they’re ungodly high😭
Literally me.
the end kills me. if the last note was just one beat longer it would be 1000 times more satisfying.
I conducted my band for a couple of days and made the executive decision to make the note longer... when our director got back she liked it and in festival we held it for probably an entire measure hehe
i feel like I'm the only one who likes the ending
the ending is dramatic it’s a minute long conclusion to the song, but the reason he did that was to make it really really annoying. like how at the bottom of an ice cream cone they put a piece of chocolate so it makes you want another one, the end is tantalizing and it makes you want to listen to the entire song again for that note :)
I disagree. The quarter note is a good ending to the molto ritardando.
nicktune1219 I would agree, but the los pollos Hermanos leads up the final note and you expect a beautiful final note, yet it sounds cut off by a couple seconds
I have a playing test on this tomorrow. I'm ready to take the L
Hey bro. How did you do on the playing test?
@@brittanykoutsunis5715 LOOOOL
legend says they’re still playing for the test
mishell lee, i chocked XD
So that’s what i was hearing in the band room.
@@brittanykoutsunis5715 he died
That flute solo in the beginning though
Too bad that last note was a tad early. It was pretty tho
Lucas Newton Grant it's supposed to sound like that!!!
@@jonathanvega4542 No its not. The score shows that they were supposed to release at the the same time but its okay
Saint Peppa yeah, it’s probably pretty hard to time it with the whole accelerating notes before it
Lucas Newton Grant I think it’s supposed to sound like that.
Only Sam Hazo can pull off having four different melodies at the same time
My friend. There's an entire era of music that proves this wrong
I could name so many other composers who can, but here's one, along with a piece where he has more than 4 melodies playing at the same time: Grainger--Scotch, Strathspey, and Reel. Check it out.
That’s not true
Jonny sarro
Uhh, you realize that there is something called the baroque and classical periods?
The Tuba part was an absolute blast to play (literally)
ok and
And trombone.. don’t forget that hell
ahh yes. another who shares in the wisdom
@@Razzlb slide grease and double tounging intensifies
Yes the whole note(s) in the beginning we’re just 😳
The poor woodwinds..
The oboe fingerings are cancer
Spacey Keys WHY DO THEY MAKE THE ALTO SAXES PLAY ALL OF THIS FLUTE AND OBOE CRAP?!?! KILL ME NOW! As cool as this sounds, I never want to play this.
And trumpets ;(
Oh come on, it's a cool part, amazing song, and a little challenging, it looks like fun. most of the 32nd and 16th triplet notes are more like mini trills. the large run is just a concert F harmonic minor scale run
You're talking to middle schoolers, they don't know what harmonic minor means lmao
At 4:30 my band had a very bad habit of getting a huge adrenaline rush and speeding up about 10 bpm. Not quite sure how we managed that, but it was very consistent. We were told not to multiple times.
makes sense that part is the best part
Same
Lol my band does the same thing sometimes. I find it so hard not to lol
My band likes to speed up so now we play song slower than they are meant to be played
It’s because it’s the best part
"I could play this in my sleep... With my hands tied behind my back... at 2x speed... BACKWARDS"
-everyone who says they played this in middle school
Aka everyone who's flat out lying in most cases. There are only a few middle schoolers in my band. And my band is pretty big.
Johnny Sarro lmaooooo 😭
our best band just played this recently(in high school). everyone thinks that im pretty good, but this is a very challenging piece
not true this is so freaking hard and i am in middle school!!
i play the flute!
Allow me to summarize the comments so that you don't have to waste time reading them
50%- lists what instrument they played this on, "this was hell to play"
40%- "I played this as a fetus and it was so easy!1! compliment me!1!1"
10%- "Good song"
Ik were playing it now in Elizabethtown area high school very hard to play
Have a great day
I made a terrible mistake switching from trumpet to sax last minute... now i have to learn this with barely a month's knowledge of sax. Im about to die see you in (insert ethereal body here).
+RachidPokemon wow I'm so srry
RachidPokemon haha omg, good luck! I love playing this song on my flute!
I thought you were over-exaggerating the fetus comment at first, but then I looked.... and well you weren't kidding.
The end should really be a fermata
Bryce Horton THANK YOU it really should
I agree! It would be much better with a fermata 🙂
eh, i think it sounds better the way it is
@@SaxandRelax I also think it sounds better the way it’s written
this is my favorite piece ever. 5:05 still gives me chills every time i listen.
2:52 The equalized of the low brass. Only the skilled shall survive. Seeing this piece as a hs junior I really see how far I have progressed since second grade.
Im a trombone player but dont forget French Horn
As a trombone player, I can agree with this statement. This song taught me to triple toung.
We aren't playing Arabesque, I think, but that's such a nasty lick I want to learn it for jazz band
@@khoshekhthecat Transcribe it into a solo!
I love when low brass is level with the rest of the band. It's just so powerful. Sam Hazo is really good at bringing out very important parts that are overlooked most of the time🫶
Played this on Xylophone last year. it was a blast! Samuel R Hazo is amazing, but he definitely has something against flutists
Every composer has something against flutists.
*sad picc noises*
sometimes it's torture, sometimes it's silent torture... every composer does one or even both
As a flutists, it's either 60 bars worth of rest, or this. There is no in between.
@@GerryCatLord real..
I swear to god; Hazo has so many things against flutes, and always gives us the hardest part, but somehow… likes us the most and gives us all the solos? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! I so badly want to play this piece with my band!
FELLOW FLUTIST I AGREE
I agree as a second chair flute
As a flutist I agree!!!!
I agree as a picc player
as a bass clarinet i have no idea what’s going on
This was the first piece I played when I switched to Bass Clarinet from the B-flat clarinet and my poor lungs w e r e n ' t r e a d y
Edit: holy shit I made this like 4 years ago and it's still getting likes/comments, glad what I said resonated so strongly with y'all 🤣 currently campaigning to get it played again because it's still my favorite bass clarinet piece to date
Omg I did that when I went into 8th grade. We played Danse Carnivale and Firebird Suite, which our band wasn't wven ready to play. Danse Carnivale was laiden with ridiculously tricky notes that I couldn't even read, and Firebird was all long notes. I was the only one on Firebird Suite that had 3 quarter notes, 2 half notes and the rest were whole notes tied mulitple times. I switched back to flute after that...
I love playing the Bass Clarinet part to this and I wish my band director would let us play it one last time before I graduate
TheDuckChicken omg that whole note in the beginning is soooo long
TheImpossibleSnicks same
it’s an awesome piece for bass clarinet, really makes me appreciate when we get good parts
Ayyyy, same bro
Anybody come here to listen, not to say that they play this hell hard music?
Draco clasher I don't know how I've only just discovered it, but holy heck, it's pure art !
Ikr
meh
For now I’m just listening, eventually I’ll get the nerve to attempt to play it (2nd year hornist) I think I’ll get it after a few runs.
I came to listen. I want to play this eventually. It sounds so awesome
Horn riff at 5:05 gives me chills every time 😱😫
Has no right to sound that good
gives me chills having to play it pfff, bc it's hard
@@purplekk10 I’m sitting in last chair, everyone in my band agrees that horn is the hardest instrument to learn. The upperclassman were recently talking about B flat horn riffs, and I’m definitely not ready lol.
@@bobcloset7963 horn is one of the most rewarding instruments ever man. Been playing trumpet for 7 years and horn for around 5 months now. I learn more everyday but this thing is so beautiful
The horn is a whole different breed of beautiful and difficult. When I first started band, I chose the French horn because it looked cool. And I’m glad I did that, cause I can’t see myself playing any other instrument as passionately as the horn. I’ve played the trumpet, mello all the time for pep and marching band, and the piano. But the horn, though it’s so hard to play sometimes, it’s so, so beautiful when you get the note to come out as you want it.
This could make a good song in a field show for marching band, with a couple adjustments
My school is actually doing that. River Bluff High School, our show is called Mirage. We have a video of our first competition on YT
I have crippling depression I just checked it out and that was incredible!
@@grant6055 Aye I remember watching that show, greetings from Gilbert
I have crippling depression my school is doing this show this year! i play the flute solo from arabesque so i use your video for inspiration lol
Tim Maher marching? 😂
One of Samuel Hazo best work. Terrific dynamic contrast, a lot of middle eastern influenced melodies in the piece. Brass have their chance to shine and Woodwinds have A LOT of moving lines. Bass Clarinet sounds awesome in this piece!
U should look up Fantasy on a Japanese Folk song by the same song writer Samuel Hazo . I promise u will change your mind
no this is his absolute best.. period
That (Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song) doesn't compare at all to the sheer intensity and fear that this piece evokes into wary listeners. Holy mother of God this piece is moving.
too bad the bassoons are mostly in unison with bass clarinet or tubas/etc, wish there was a bit more division of color
@@colinnolan2212 thats subjective
My senior year, this piece was everybody’s favorite. I played the bongos. You have no idea how hard and awesome it is to play them at fffff. The whole band loved this song so much but every time we were about to finish the whole piece without stopping, the girl playing the oboe near the end always messed up and we had to start all over again
Our oboe soloist for this song is absolutely killing it
Ah a fellow bongo man. My favorite part is the percussion break around 50
@@dannypowell7556 bro i play timpani right there its the most fun part of the show for sure
I remember doing this piece on the Congas, truly the most fun I ever had in band
@@brycejohnson8486 me too lol
I see all these low brass and woodwind comments.....BUT WHERE TF ARE MY TAMBOURINES AT
Tega Enaibe Hi lol. I played the tambourine 😂
I play tambourine this year for it 😂👌
SingingHades trombones lets go
AYYYEE TAMBOURINE GANG
Hi
rip flute players
My fingers hurt the first time I sight read this xD
Jordan Gross it sucked but it was worth it 💀
I just got it today and have until Spring to practice it
Haha true
and i thought the ending of Incantation and Dance was difficult. jeez. (gotta send this to my symphonic band conductor to see if she'll line it up for next year now)
I played this in the womb and then performed it in the hospital right after I was born
I performed this piece alongside Alexander the Great, centuries before Samuel R. Hazo was even conceived. I was quite the player, I must say...
hold my milk
we really thought that one comment was exaggerating but I guess not
Pah, I was playing it before my great grandmother was even concieved. The mere thought of you playing this in the womb is blasphemy.
lol noob i did it before the dawm of time
Samuel R. Hazo really hates flutes.
nah he likes flutes. he gave em the best part
Rias gremory I’m in 8th grade and that flute part looks like absolute hell to play compared to one of our most technologically pieces we’ve played
Our band is playing his Japanese song and I got the flute solos and my friend is a harpist and I love all the flute involvement.
YEP!!!!!!!!
MonkeyDP nah
if i don't get to play this piece sometime in my life i will literally die
omg same
Ur gonna die at some point anyway:)
Same. Especially since I’ve been playing bass Clairnet for 6 years
I got to, 9.5 years ago during my freshman year of high school.
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
Our ensemble had the pleasure of meeting the composer. He’s amazing and a truly amazing composer and musician.
measure 50 is my favorite! - SAID NO ONE EVER
ezreal 😂
Correction: said low brass and percussion ;)
Where is measure 50
@@imnotaclown9603 2:47 basically the entire left paper is one measure
I would argue it’s one of the more technically easy ones out of this whole piece 🤷♀️😯(flute here)
3:20 when there's four different melodies going on at once
Griff Richardson Where's the fourth one?
Matthew LeFebvre Woodwinds, low voices, trumpets, and percussion.
Let's be honest. The low voices melody is the funniest, loudest, and coolest. :D
btw I'm a horn player :D
Only Hazo can pull that off well
Can unpitched percussion have a melody?
I’m gonna make a support group for all of us that have had to play this piece. I’m calling it “Arabesque Anonymous”
What, you mean to vibe over just how much fun it is?
MonkeyDP If you say this piece is fun, you must’ve never played it, or you’re third clarinet and don’t know your part.
@@kaiwoofers8249 Nah, I played the Bari Sax part
@@kaiwoofers8249 uhh chile??? Low brass part is so fun to play
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This is such a magnificent piece. My granddaughter had THE flute solo when her high school band played it for the spring concert the other day. Being a flute player myself I could tell that part was hard just from watching the video of the concert. Now that I see the score, it's killer!
As a fellow flute player, props to your grand daughter!
"I think I had the easiest part in this whole song."
--2nd Trombone
Story of my life
Shhhh don't spill out secrets
5:05 is life.... high B trills on clarinet are beautiful.
Also known as the greatest song ever written
I agree.
But hell to play
+Noah0415 you got that right on clarinet the 32nd notes i have to play are super difficult.
it's definitely Hazo's best. but look up Khan by Julie Giroux. or the band arrangement for The Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre
+fatmanvidz Seal Lullaby😍😍😍
All these musicians. But the best thing to listen for is the FRENCH HORN IN THIS. makes me cry
4:46 always gives me chills… the trumpet part, French horn and then them all come together to make the most beautiful melody. Especially when tuba has the low part walking up the scale a few notes
and this is why I play bass clarinet
!!
XD same!
This, all of this. The Bass Clarinet part is a really fun challenge
saaaaaaame
Finally another Bass Clarinet player
You know it's about to be good when there's a note in the first 5 seconds 😂
That horn rip at 5:02 gives me goosebumps every goddamn time
ITS SO GOOD
HOW DO YOUR LIPS NOT FALL OFF WHEN YOU PLAY THAT ION EVEN PLAY HORN
Euphonium has the rip as well, but as always it's buried by the other instruments. So when I play this song, I gotta play it low so people can hear it.
It’s so hard that even the soloist messed up the last note in this recording.
So cringy I wish they hadn’t. The solo was so good up to then.
The flute solo?
This piece is so brilliant but you don't know pain until you play this piece haha
Honestly, people seem to over emphasize how hard Arabesque is to play. The piece is a challenge to be sure, it is a grade 5 after all, but compared to Ride or Rush, Arabesque is an easy run through.
Nice name.
Nice name.
What? This is so much harder than ride on trumpet at least
Wow, a wild colin nolan in his natural habitat. Hi dad
Collin Petry yooooo ride is my jammm
I still remember playing this in marching band in high school. Hard to believe it was over a decade ago.
MARICHING BANDDD???!???!? TF????
When the bass clarinets AS WELL AS the tubas and trombones are playing sixteenth notes, lovely
Don't forget the Euphonium!!!
And Baris!
And Baris!
we just call m. 50 "that one measure" and everybody knows which measure we're talking about
OH DEAR GOD NO
hAH
-Low brass player
Sp00kyP00tis 🙏 I think this is a high five
Those are i think hands in prayer but i see what you mean.
Sp00kyP00tis well I guess it could be praying for anyone that has to play this
I played this 6 years ago in high school, I love the song but hated playing it on Clarinet. I remember all my friends & me on woodwinds being stressed out 😂😂
We just got it and it’s my senior year, and it’s hell 😭 this is why I’m listening to it
Me who’s low brass 💪🏻
Sam Hazo got something against clarinets
I loved the trombones part and basically all of low brass parts i wish my low brass people would could play this with out sounding like a wrong note 😭
4:41 to the end is absolutely beautiful. The tuba part is just so amazing and it really adds weight to the song. Almost made me cry.
3:10-3:25 gets me hyped everytime
Same. What about 4:30?
The poor trumpets chops
You all think playing this piece is hard; imagine writing this piece...
3:11 gives me the chills!!
I had to play this my freshman year, first trumpet part. It was hell
+Aaron Carino That was awesome
+Austin Hernández Try 8th grade. That was hell.
***** Nah it was just basic public high school. My high school band teacher said that we were the only band in GA with all freshman playing level 6 music. I think I know why lol.
***** level 6 is the highest level of music in our grading system, it's the most difficult music there is for band.
***** lol it was very tough, but it's a great learning experience too.
2:45 the horns “finally we have the main melody!”
Where are all the horns
I’m hear ✌🏾
I don't know where you play but there are much more prominent segments for horn in most good pieces.
It’s actually trombones baritones and French horns at that part
@Dinar Owens wrong "here" but okay I'm also trombonist
Here
The amount of power it takes to have a full ffff sound from a 35 person band is crazy so we die everytime we get to that part in the music
Turns out slapping congas that hard hurts too lol
I had first flute in this piece, AND THE SOLO. OH MY GOD HOW AM I STILL ALIVE
I play the flute part, I swear to god I was about to die when we finished it
Olivia Chen any tips from one flute player to another?
@@Aberna-Aeiya breath. do not panic too much. stretch your fingers out and try double tounging on the the faster notes.( do not worry if you cant or it takes a while double tounging is not learne over night). Good luck!
This is why i play percussion, though my director sometimes acts like he wants his pieces to knock my wrists off my hands.
I played it Too it Took a Long time but i did it
Yes @ biggest one don’t panic.
I wish everyone in my band mastered their instrument so we could play something like this.
Rip all woodwinds
No tenor sax is actually pretty ok.
i’m trying to convince our band director to let us play this this year
Same
Same
y'all the tambourine part for this SLAPS
This piece sounds great, but the difference of it being played in person is SO much better - love it
And that low brass/horn section AHH so good
3:38 The only reason why I know anything that is happening here in the flutes and clarinets is because we had to go over this so many times to get it down in my band lel
this is such a cool song, especially the ending, I feel like this has the best ways to end a song, ever in all of band songs, cant wait to hopefully play this again soon
I am in love with the ripping high piccolo notes oml
This piece will always have a sense of Nostalgia for me. It was the first piece I ever played in concert in the top band at my highschool. That was a few years ago, and I’ve since bought a professional level instrument so I can pursue music for the rest of my life. I only hope to get the feeling of that song back again. It’s a one of a kind piece.
This was the first piece it played in sixth grade. It will forever live within me🔥🔥🔥
SIXTH GRADE!!! What country do you live in geez
@@lajatootreacts USA
@@habitaz geez man, I wish people at my high school could play at this level. (Canada)
@@lajatootreacts they're lying
@@lajatootreactsthey’re lying bruh 💀
Although this entire piece is incredible, 4:49 through 5:25 sounds absolutely amazing!
This was one of the hardest and most fun songs that I played in high school.
One of the greatest pieces composed for wind band. Ever
The last 16 measures of this piece might be the most beautiful music ever written
Seriously !! It’s like heaven to my ears
As the lead oboist who is playing the solo this year I full heartedly agree
Was gonna play this for our spring concert but coronavirus
Who else came here for 2:53 but then ended up listening to the whole song on repeat?
I kept repeating that part😂
It’s fire, I wanna play it one day but it’s a trombone part but I play tuba
Not just me apparently.
@@TeaLeaf128 lol
Me
I'm 16 and I played the first horn of this piece in a first division wind orchestra. I died about 37 times.
lol
오세훈 im 16 too , and 1st position, the high G almost fatigued me
Lee Yoke Chan High G? is not that difficult.
Steven Arango it's usually not, but after playing this entire piece and then having to play the high G at ffff is exhausting (from my experience with this piece)
오세훈 Ah yes. Oops.
2:12 is AMAZINNNG
We played this at the TLU band camp, we only had four days to learn it and the applause we got when we finally preformed it at the concert is still one of the most rewarding things I have ever felt.
My middle school band is playing this I'm so excited to play
we played this in band this year (high school) and it was everyone’s favorite piece! I played on bass clarinet and loved the little feature at the end uwu
I read your comment as that part came on😂
Me too. Also bass clarinet
I play trumpet and this was so much fun to play. Loved every second
lol i had my volume full blast & the beginning scared tf outta me 😂
This sounds like heaven for all those brass players who love to blast their sounds out and just play
Zentonic Online except for trumpet with all the high notes
Can confirm
Fr
5:05 always get chills here
when i played this junior year of high school, i didn't appreciate it as much as i should have. I was just an angry clarinetist who was annoyed with the amount of altissimo-register notes. But now being an alumni and having all kinds of facebook memories from band concerts come up, I have to say this was by far my most favorite piece I ever performed in my 7 years of middle/high school band, and still my all time favorite over everything I've played even after high school
Me when we were listening to this in class : I bet this will be tons of fun to play!
Band director: hands me first clarinets part
Me : 😦🕶️🤏🏽
Genuinely love this piece for the amount of bass clarinet and contrabass this has. 🥰
suggesting this to my band director because that percussion bit is such a vibe!
...pun unintended
THE HORN RIP. AHHHHHH.
I was an orchestra kid, so I've never heard this one before. I'm jealous, what a banger!
Annnnnnd this is why i'm in low brass
The Saddest Human that’s my lil kookiieeeee😍❤️
Heh don't let your hopes up when low brass gets easy parts
There's always that one song that tortures us.....
@@simplybmilli The trombone part isn't even that easy tbh, at least it wasn't for me on bass trombone
same here but bass clarinet
@@simplybmilli You mean measure 58? play that on tuba
I like how the bass clarinet part could be considered grade 3 at most
5:07 yes french horns
The ending literally gives me chills, those chords are beautiful!
this is unironically one of the coolest pieces i have ever heard in my life.
absolutely love the bassline at 4:39
We’re playing this in my college wind ensemble currently and although it’s challenging for me as a flute player I LOVE how it sounds.
Trombone player here. Had to mark measure 62 for myself to chill out, because it was just so fun to play. One of my favourite pieces.
I was able to play this piece before the concept of sound was even introduced to the universe.
This piece my friends is a great example of the use of the Phrygian Dominant scale.