On 2 Jan 2005 at 14:11, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Dec 31, 2004, at 6:58 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > And in terms of orchestration, while [Schumann] made a few > > elementary mistakes that anyone with an orchestration teacher would > > have been trained *not* to make, > > Such as what, for example? His orchestration tends to be stodgy and > plain, certainly, but "elementary mistakes?" I'd be interested to know > of any.
I'm recalling a trumpet problem, where he wrote some non-playable notes in one of the symphonies, but in a quick leaf through the scores, can't find it. > I heard a wonderful recording recently of the 4th Sym. w. Barenboim > and I forget wh. European orch. that has made me rethink even the > "stodgy" label. Many details of the instrumental writing there made > vivid sense to me in ways they never had before. And no, this wasn't > the Mahler rescoring. I've never had a problem with the "thickness" of Schumann's orchestration, something Brahms can be equally accurately "accused" of. I've also never understood the trope about the supposed inadequacy of the orchestrations of Chopin's piano concertos -- they are what they are, which is piano pieces with fairly minimal orchestral accompaniment, but so far as I can see, no egregious orchestration problems. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
