Examples of registration changes whilst playing

[wirralaccordion]

Can you think of any accordion solo pieces that have a distinctive registration change whilst the piece is being played.
I saw a couple of bass registration changes made "mid-piece" recently on Youtube made with the right hand but I was thinking mainly treble registration changes.
What, if anything, determines the need? e.g. in a musette two or more distinct "tunes in one" such as AA-BB-A ( requiring two changes as A is repeated ), etc

 

[Glug]

Have a look at Fermeture Definitive



The treble changes register 4 times I think.
Theres a link on the video to the sheet music here: https://4ormat-asset.s3.amazonaws.c...35/Valse de la Fermeture Définitive-20141.pdf.

 

[wirralaccordion]

Glug said

Have a look at Fermeture Definitive



The treble changes register 4 times I think.

Thats exactly what I meant and here is another perfect example

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Glug said

Theres a link on the video to the sheet music here: https://4ormat-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/vf...-20141.pdf.

Another perfect example of music written for accordion.

I am frustrated when I buy music written for accordion and there are no registration suggestions.

 

[Glug]

Yep, it does get slightly annoying, but I'm usually playing French Musette so I can guess

A small note: that score was "transcribed by Gerson Antunes" but I'm fairly certain the soprano bass register at bar 42 is wrong.
Reason being you can really hear the low bass B coming in at the end of bar 49.
It could be master bass all the way through, the soprano change would be about 2:04 in the video but I can't see it, then the video cuts away.

I play it with 'soft bass' register all the way through because that works on my box.

 

[debra]

Register changes are always a problem, both for arrangers (who need to take into account that people not having chin switches need time to change registers) and for players (who struggle to change registers as fast as arrangers think they should be able to)...
I just finished an arrangement for quintet that requires the first voice to change registers 6 times, the second voice also 6 times, the third voice 14 times (no kidding!), the fourth voice 9 times, the bass accordion not at all. This all stems from trying to simulate the different sounds from different instruments in a symphonic orchestra.
I also play in the Dutch Symphonic Accordion Orchestra (NSAO) where I play bass accordion and there it is pretty normal even for the bass accordion to have a dozen or more register changes in a single piece of music...