I checked with a colleague who has conducted the piece. He confirmed that
our interpretation of the flute part is correct. (Rereading your note,
Colin, I believe you were describing the same thing I was, but in different
words).
As for the bass clarinet part, he tells me that Stravinsky went
At 11:05 PM 10/14/02, shirling neueweise wrote:
a look at the two piano reduction - by igor himself - would likely clear
up the confusion regarding 'proper' register in at least some of the cases.
I don't think there's any confusion about the intended register. It's quite
clear what he
At 06:58 AM 10/13/02, Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 11:47 PM 10/12/02, Colin Broom wrote:
Ok, I'll come clean. For reasons that are too uninteresting to explain,
I've been putting the Introduction of Part 1 of of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of
Spring' into Finale. Suffice to say it's related to the
Not so much an anomaly, but another controversy (at least in the horn world) is
the question of which octave the Tenor Tuba parts sound in. (These parts are
actually played on Wagner Tube by the 7th and 8th horn players.) Some people say
the Tenor Tubas should be in unison with the Bass Tubas.
- Original Message -
From: Mark D. Lew
It's possible that there is some good reason to be using the bass clef
that
you're unaware of.
Ok, I'll come clean. For reasons that are too uninteresting to explain,
I've been putting the Introduction of Part 1 of of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of
