HSC performance pieces (2 Viewers)

[champo14]

i am doing music 1 atm and i am going through the process of picking HSC pieces. i have a couple ideas for example:
This is the moment from Jekyll and Hyde (musical)
The unexpected song from song and dance (musical)
Bridge over troubled Water
Ave Maria
and many more...
i am a singer and have been trained operatic/classically and have about a 4 octave range
i want to find a piece thats going to show off my voice!!
Have you got any ideas?

Ave Maria is one of my favorite songs. If you sing opera, why don't you sing all opera/classical pieces. Not that I have anything against musical theatre...

Have you thought about doing any arias? Like Un bel di vedremo from Madam Butterfly...heh.

Or something from one of the more "Operettas", Like Les Mis or Carmen?

 

[Murlough]

Hsc 2008

I want to sing

1. Feeling Good - Muse
2. The Small Print - Muse
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - covered by The Living End
4. Say It To Me Now - Glenn Hansard

All may be changed but thats what I wanna do at the moment.

 

[bassmate]

Hello cool kids

1. Chromazone by Mike Stern (on Tenor Sax)
2. Let it Free by Dave Koz (on Soprano sax)
3. YYZ by Rush (on Bass)
4. Birdland by Weather Report (on Bass)

Birdland will be fun because I know HSC examiners love Jaco so it'll be sweet!!

Good luck everyone!!!!!

 

[Roguey]

I'm hoping to do:
Blue Moon - Arrangement by Tommy Emmanuel
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
And there was another one, a classical piece. I forget the name right now.

 

[trao06]

if i don't change my mind, i hope to do..

the verve - bittersweet symphony (piano/vocals)
muse - butterflies & hurricanes (piano/vocals)


and if i do change my mind, the substitute will be..

eva cassidy - songbird (guitar/vocals)




rae, from what i read, ave maria would be great! take a look at the carpenters' version of that, it's beautiful =]

 

[Dunzo]

3. YYZ by Rush (on Bass)

You bastard, I'm doing it too. Except I'm playing with a guitarist who's also using it as one of his performance pieces, so I'm hoping it'll turn it really well.

My pieces in addition to YYZ are:
Badinerie - Bach (bass)
Flor D'Luna - Santana (guitar part on bass)
Wonderful Slippery Thing - Guthrie Govan (guitar part on bass)

 

[sanyodisc]

norwegainw ood, not too complicated, will you get a good mark for it?

 

[NickyFM]

heyyyy band geeks!
I play the flute and i'm playing

Core: Hysterical penguins
Elective 1: Viva Voce - Musical theatre (tone colour comparison between west side story overture and candide overture)
Elective 2: Jazz - "Jazzy" - 7th movement from the claude bolling suite for flute and jazz piano trio
Elective 3: Instrument and its repitiore - "Le Merle Noir" - Oliver Messaen

My schools music department never gets below a mid band 5 in their hsc so you can imagine the pressure coming from them

 

[carlyshowie]

im doing
somewhere over the rainbow - eva cassidy
romance - anonymous

on nylon string and im singing too...
a bit of a challenge lol :jaw:

 

[BaSTaRD]

Ah ha everyone's doing moonlight sonata

I'm doing the 3rd movement *mighty


My list:
Kapustin, Eight Concert Practise No.1
Beethoven, Moonlight 3rd
Brahms, Hungarian Dance No.5
Rachmaniov, Pagganini 18th variation (My only slow piece...)
D.Milhaud, Brazileira from Scaramouche for 2 Pianos

And my Australian Piece...
Chopsticks theme and variations

 

[Happily Insane]

i'm music 1, singer.
i'm doing
This Is How It Goes- Missy Higgins
Vermillion Pt 2- Slipknot
Hold On- KT Tunstall

and i think i'm going to do Fever- michael buble

thing is, no idea what to do for the backing for it..

anyone got ideas?

ta

 

[Amps]

I'm doing all perf (voice) for music 2 and extension. kill me.

'Moon Spirit' Dorothy Mewes (Core Australian)
Music 2 Elective: Classical
ergo I've got a Mozart and a Haydn.
"Un Moto di Gioia" from Le Nozze di Figaro
"Now the Dancing Sunbeams Play"

Extension:
"Let Me Wander Not Unseen" Handel
"An Den Mond" (Holty libretto) Schubert
"La Regatta Veneziana" (duet) Rossini

fever. I love that song. then again, I'm a sucker for velvet voices the likes of bublé, cullum...(moving away from 'velvet') bellamy, levine (* la maroon 5)....haha

if you're looking for interesting accompaniment for the bublé piece, maybe experiment with some timbres. your typical crotchet bass line can always be jazzed up. looks like a great repertoire though. missy higgins! nice.

 

[lightning101]

does anyone have any ideas for the rock elective that i can do on the piano? im the only classically trained in a class of guitarists and drummers. any suggestions??

 

[calmal]

heyoooo.

I did mine last year and got 78..i did 4 performances and they were all pretty simple songs.

RATM-Bulls on Parade
The Braided- Speak to the skies
The Braided-Hibernation
Initation-Tommy Emmanuel

I played them all pretty well..but my HSC was kinda of a joke..like i didnt need good marks...but 78 was good for me..I should have played some punk songs..i wish i did..i would have laughed.

but if your struggling for rock pieces look at the pieces from The braided..its my mates band so they played with me in my HSC but i jsut replaced there guitarist.

i think there website is www.myspace.com/thebraided

ohh..and play reeko or greencorn by nofx for ur hsc anyone..that would b cool.

 

[Faye.Louise]

im a vocalist n im doing:
Nowadays- from 'Chicago'
Awaiting You- Megan Mullally
The Way I Am- Ingrid Michealson
Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love- from 'De Lovely'

I had my trials n my teachers said it woz one of my best performances i've had so im feeling confident about my HSC. Terrified ill forget my lyrics tho

 

[amandaaa.91]

Vine - Bagatelle 3/4
Tchaikovsky - June
Chopin - Waltz opus 34 no.1
Bach - Prelude and Fugue no. 13 (bk 2)
Gershwin - The Man I Love
Burgmuller - opus 10 , 2nd movement (duo)

all on piano.

 

[Triquad]

im a classical singer doing music 2 and extension, and im singing for m2:
The Sick Rose - Zillibowits (core)
Die Nacht - Strauss (music of the 19th century)
Litanei - Schubert (music of the 19th century)

and for ext:
Cara Sposa- Handel (from his opera Rinaldo)
Erbarme Dich Mien Gott - Bach (from the St Matthew Passion)
No Good Deed - Schwartz (from Wicked)

are there any other ext people who are splitting up their program? doing music 2 in the morning and ext in the arvo? anythihhng like that?

 

[extreme.georgia]

hello
im a pianist/vocalist/drummer,
but i didnt think it would be a good idea to drum for the HSC
so, im playing...

1. Prelude - Christopher norton
2. Pathetique - Beethoven
3. The gift - T (singing)
4. Blumenlied - ...dont remember the composer

is anyone going to do
Bmusic or Bmusic/Beducation?

im doing my audition on 27th of Nov @UNSW
i also have applied for Sydney but havent received the confirmation sheet yet.

BYEBYEBYEBYEBYE!! =)

 

[extreme.georgia]

damn.... i wish i was that good!

im going

canon rock - jerry c
always with me always with you - joe satriani
and more than likely pull harder on the strings of your martyr - trivium

but im too crap at the moment

I suggest you go crazy for trivium,
as they love it when you jump around and etc
my friend played I killed the prom queen and
parkway drive
and he got, 18/20 and 20/20!!
because he jumped around and .. yeah.. haha!
they love it!!

 

[sonnysburning]

wow, so many talented people on here!
i'm doing music 1 with 2 vive voce & oneperformance and one core performance thing..

my vive voce's are on-
the music of nick cave - australiain music
the music of sigur rós - 20th & 21st century music.

and my performances are-
tamacun - rodrigo y gabriella [rodrigo's bit] ... so cool. (20 mark one) - instrument and its repetoire
the last polka - ben folds five [bass] (ten mark one) - 20th & 21st century music