Dragonhunter, by Richard Meyer - Score & Sound
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Dragonhunter
By Richard Meyer
Item: 00-20797
Series: Highland/Etling String Explorer
Category: String Orchestra
Format: Conductor Score & Parts
Level: 1
Using only the notes of the D major scale, Richard Meyer has fashioned a medieval-sounding piece that is sure to fascinate your beginning string students. The minor key, modal harmonies and driving rhythms give this piece a very mature sound. The aggressive main theme is introduced by violins and violas, with cello and bass in counterpoint. The theme later returns in canon, with cellos and basses being chased (hunted) by the violins and violas. Very dramatic from start to finish! (2:51) This title is available in SmartMusic.
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This is a piece that no orchestra can skip. If your orchestra hasn’t played this piece then it isn’t a real orchestra. No orchestra can skip this piece. It doesn’t count as an orchestra if you haven’t played this before.
My orchestra played this
@@timothyblancada4325 me too!
Fr because I’m in 6th grade and we are already learning it and I’m like one of the advanced ones so I’m and here trying to get the whole song not only half of it
fr, i loved playing this in 6th grade and i still love this piece to this day
Bruh
we played this piece in 6th grade and now it’s a tradition in our orchestra because we loved it so much! every year the beginning class plays this piece for the spring concert
I played this, same darn piece for all my years of playing cello, like canon in D...
It’s a tradition for the 6th grade for our school to. Reason was because the 6th grade do this midevil fair and the orchestra got to play this song for it. Which for the concert the 6th graders also play this for spring as well. Now my brother is playing it!
Oh my gosh! My orchestra is playing this right now! It’s awesome!
Same
Same :D
When playing this song in a big orchestra you can feel it's power
Thats true, that is very much true
We have 40 kids in our orchestra and our conductor has us playing very loud and fierce and you can just feel the power, we have our concert tomorrow (Im the Concertmaster the the 7th grade orchestra) and we love this piece even though we are used to playing more challenging pieces.
Yes❤
I swear, when the basses and cellos play the main part a measure before the rest of the orchestra, it makes you feel like your leading the charge
FR
exactly!
This song is so much better then I thought. I’m in orchestra and we are doing it for our spring concert. It hasn’t been real orchestra if you haven’t played this song.
I remember playing this in 6th grade, this was a pretty fun piece.
Me too!
So did my Friend Angel
I’ve gone from playing this, to now playing the Violin 1 solo for The Emerald Falcon. Richard Meyer is the best
Playing this piece in my orchestra, love it!
Micah_ TC me too
Micah_ TC same its the best song we’ve played in my opinion
same
I played it for sight reading
Same
The 6th grade orchestra at my school has played this piece every year for like 5 years and it’s amazing
I just started playing this song on 5th grade semester 2. This is by far my fav song. 😄😁
Man I remember playing this and I played the cello I swear I put so much motion and expression into this song with I played .. I broke like 4 bow strings 😂😭
I'm playing rn and I do the same 😂😭
🤣🤣🤣
@@TtvGreyDracoKing 😳
I play cello to and am playing this song :)
Violinist here, don't your strings only break when tuning?
We played this song in our winter concert! It was amazing!!
This was my first richard meyer piece as a viola and it was amazing! So far, I've played the following songs made by him in order:
Dragonhunter
Ninja
Starfleet
Terra Nova (which is by far the BEST!!!)
Same!
Just not the other songs
Richard Meyer has some good lower level pieces, but where his REALLY good stuff is is in the higher levels like 3 and 4. Incantations (4), The Emerald Falcon (4), Subterranean Dialogues (4), Mantras (3), The Elements (4), Swamp Thang (4), and Minotaur (4) are all really good high level pieces. As a fellow violist I can say these all represent the Viola pretty well
Moonstone by Yukiko Nishimura is another epic piece
Our chamber orch played it when i was in 6th. Now a new conductor and now we are playing grade 3. Old conductor would be so proud.
Ahh I remember playing this, it brings back so many memories
Hearing this song fills you with determination
undertale reference?????
@@felixwhy indeed 🙃
@@FadeDoesArt haha nice
We played this and now every can’t stop playing haha! Every time we got free time the violas, violins, and cellos group up to play this!
First Richard Meyer piece played
Order:
Dragon hunter
Night shift
Madras
Swamp thang
The elements
Incantations
They are all great pieces
You should try hemepheres and GPS and Kabuki dance, those are awesome songs as well
Bro my orchestra teacher is making us play night shift and dragon hunter and immmm soooo happy these pieces are really fun to play im hoping we get to play them at our concert tooooo!
I’m learning Swamp Thang by myself, it’s soo fun!!!
The first Richard Meyer piece I played was Sahara crossing
@@xotillwere is hemispheres hard? We haven't gotten it but I'm curious since I like it a lot
I’m in beginning orchestra at my school and I play violin and we got the papers today. It’s so fun!
I'm playing this right now it's awesome, I'm violin 1 and my orchestra is playing it and it's awesome!
I did this piece at my 5th grade orchestra concert. I'm in 9th grade now
Mikaylas Channel I did it to for fifth
I’m playing this this year in the spring! It’s such a nice song
We’re learning this song in our orchestra class right now
yea, it’s really cool to play it
We played this in sixth grade and this is so nostalgic! I can imagine myself playing the cello part again 😭
remember playing this for beginning orchestra, very fun. am now in the advanced orchestra, five years later 👍
AHHH IM TEACHING MYSELF THIS NOW!!!!
I play viola. We only have one bass in our class, and i guess it's every other day, because he's also the only trumpet in band (which I'm also in). We're learning to play this song for i think the spring concert, and in in seventh grade. A lot of comments day they were in 6th it 5th grade, but I'm in seventh. This is such a cool piece!!
We also have 1 bass
@@elviaortiz2975 same
I am currently 7th grade, I remember playing this one last year. Richard Meyer is such a good composer :)
Also, we currently have two basses both of which are in one class lol
i learned this in 7th on the cello in my class orchestra. i’m 19 now. Still stuck with me - i fucking love this song. special place in my heart forever
I see a lot of comments about playing this in 6th grade, I'm currently in 6th grade and learning this.
Cool. I'm abt to be in 10th and i love this piece and its legit the easiest thing now💀💀💀
I'm in seventh learning to play it on viola
Same 6th on viola
lol ig ur in 10th grade now. time flies pretty quick!
This was are pop concert song and it was so fun to play and will always be apart of my orchestra journeys
This is the first piece I ever played with an orchestra, that was about eight years ago now. I just thought of it randomly and showed up here.
I'm gonna be playing this song for my spring concert, I'm playing the cello, I am in fifth grade, and I can say, as a beginner cellist, this song is soothing to the ears 😊
Omg I Remembered Playing This Song For The Spring Concert At My School! Me And My Classmates Wanted To Play This Song Every Day In Class Bc Everyone Loved It So Much! 🥺😭✨🙏🏼💖❤️
Loved this piece in 5th grade and still love it to this day. 😍 Bout to be a theme song for my DND character.
Playing this piece in my orchestra class, love it!
Me suffering in class trying to play this: 😭
My friend: ✨
i feel ya, im one of only 5 cellos at my school so im strugglin 😭
@@sledgehammer_floatzel At least I have more cello players and I feel bad for you.
@SSSB365 The other cellists at my school dont even like me cause they think I "dont play" (i literally do more than them, theyre so cocky though) and most of the time, im with the group that doesn't even have a cello other than me so i'm just abt fightin fo my life haha :,D. hinestly in my experience its easier being the only cello plus the instructor on cello too
@@sledgehammer_floatzel wow
@@sledgehammer_floatzel There's only 3 cellos in my class
I have played this all 3 years in middle school and i am going to miss this and Mr butts( yes that’s really his name) so much
I can’t believe that nearly 16 years after I first learned this in elementary school orchestra, I still remember the tune and the name just popped into my head. I wish my teacher had been nicer to us in middle school. I might still be playing.
It sounds cool w/ Playback 1.25
I played this last year in orchestra and we have to play it again this year, I love this song, cellos been fun
I’m so excited on playing this for my spring concert! IT SOUNDS AMAZING! I SWEAR!
I PLAYED THIS IN MY 3RD GRADE VIOLIN CONCERT
I remember playing this when I was about 14 or 15 in the middle school, 8th grade. I was upright bass. Fast forward 10 years, I am gonna be 25 and I miss playing an upright so much.
I play viola. We only have one bass in our class, and i guess it's every other day, because he's also the only trumpet in band (which I'm also in). We're learning to play this song for i think the spring concert, and in in seventh grade. A lot of comments day they were in 6th it 5th grade, but I'm in seventh. This is such a cool piece!!
I remember playing this song in 6th grade Ahhhhh 😍
we played this today for our final concert of the year! it was so fun compared to the first piece we had, it 100% has its own place in my heart!!
i see everyone talking about playing this in 6th or 5th grade but i only found it because a friend who was in orchestra recommended it to me a few years ago
I’m playing this for my orchestra concert tomorrow!!
I’m playing this in orchestra. It’s really good!!
I played this on violin
We are currently played this and the Dragon Slayer. It’s one of our first pieces out of the book ( 6th grade ) I love the melody.
playing Dragonhunter, Perpetual motion, The polka dot polka and Fiddles on fire for my winter concert it sounds awesome!
You aren’t in orchestra if you haven’t played this piece before
reall
you play it in 6th
Ok
I play the song in orchestra and fifth grade. PS I’m still in orchestra, and we played it at our spring concert, and with the whole orchestra you could just feel the power and it was super amazing 10 out of 10 recommend
Lol I did this for 6th and 7th grade because my orchestra class loved it. I've played it and listened to it so many times I have it memorized.
Playing this in my orchestra!
We played this in 6th, one of the best pieces ever made
same
Im 7th grade an am playing this in orchestra, thanks
We are playing this song right now!
I remember playing this in 6th grade orchestra
We're playing it this year as one of our 4songs for our concert
please do conquistador by Deborah Baker Monday
I am going to be playing this in my six grade class
i played this in my winter concert, absolutely love that song. im a viola player lol
i'm in 5th grade and I have to play this piece it's really nice i learned how to play the beginning do far
I played this in 7 th grade and I was cello part it was the best
As a fact my class is learning this and im so excited I have learn the first 3 measures 😊
I remember thinking the the plucking bit was such a banger (still is) BUT THEN MY TEACHER CUT IT OUT AT THE CONCERT still angry about that till this day
how do you just cut out the best part of the song!? We played this last year (7th grade) in orchestra and we loved that part
@@khi- for us, no one had mastered it or even bothered trying when we rehearsed it. So the teacher cut it out. It annoyed me cause I memorized the whole thing and was first chair
@@mememikasa9092 oh that would make me so mad
I love this song so much I played this for a concert at Six flags it’s such a fun song tbh
Iconic
I'm doing this piece for my consert
I remember playing this in 6th grade
A CELLOS FAVOURITE SONG.
ORCHESTRA ISNT ORCHESTRA WITHOUT DRAGONHUNTER.
rightt!!
I'm playing this piece rn for my last concert and as one of the best cellos in my group I am struggling 🤪
Dude… Now I need to play this for my fall concert… it’ll be real hard tho since i’m going into 8th grade😭
Imagine this song with a choir
im seeing so many people saying they did this in like 6th grade and I'm in 8th grade and doing it, but I guess its a lil different since my district started orchestra in 7th grade
me too dawg 😭
This song hits hard tho
1:45 - 2:48 is the best part
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ AAAAAAAA I can’t express how much I love this!!!
I played this back in third/fourth grade (I forgot lmao). This was my favorite piece I played as first violin
In our school we start in fifth grade, and don't get a chance to learn an instrument until then (when starting the school) ur so lucky, lol... We're learning this in seventh grade
Nice
God I remember playing this in 6th grade
I played this as viola and it’s very fun same w night shift gargoyles and Irish farewell uhhh oh riverwind and wildfire and a few more
“this game is so hard i have to hunt the dragon” “dragon hunter?” “what?” *🎶🎶*
love
I’m in 10th Grade Right now, and we practicing to play this piece. And in May we will have concert about this piece. And of course I will play random notes 😔😔😔.
Tenth? Damn unc
@@Underloafed_Slapperyup
Same we also play this
I played this in 7th grade :D (I'm in 9th grade now :3)
We played this song today
This is a richard meyer classic
gforce better
@@herissmon9878 what
IKR
If you’re orchestra hasn’t played this it’s not a real orchestra i LOVEEEE this one
i remember playing this in 5th grade.
Michigan LMS gang 😎
all hail richard meyer our lord
Im playing this as a 2nd violin in my orchestra
This is actually kind of harmonically confusing to analyze (which is not necessarily a bad thing). The key signature says D major/B minor, and I assume it's D major for most of the piece except it transposes to B minor for a section, and meanwhile the actual main melody seems like it's actually in E minor! Literal Incantations was easier to analyze than this (still not a bad thing)
This is fun to play, although I think the tempo my concert I played in was faster because this seems slower
Played this in 5th grade, it was a fun piece to play and i enjoyed it. but uh the other students? yeah..
i cant read music at all (i know it's really bad but i just play by ear) and i literally forgot about the coda. i was practicing without the coda for like three days.
pls do sarah crossing by richard meyer
@itz._.laudia Lol this was me one year ago
Brooo Sahara crossing is so very amazing lol I played it in sixth grade with the shifting and everything it was awesomeeee
where are my cello brothers and sisters who played this
wsg shawty 🔥