John Howell wrote:
With respect, that is SO simplistic! It's an orchestrator's job not
only to know the extreme limits of range, but to know the limits for
different levels of players AND TO KNOW THE SPECIFIC SOUND OF EACH
SUBRANGE WITHIN THAT RANGE, if not each individual note. You don't have
to learn to play the instruments to do this, but it sure doesn't hurt!
If you don't have that knowledge, you aren't an orchestrator, and you
might as well be doing algebra problems.
John
Making mistakes about ranges of instruments doesn't make somebody
incompetent. Didn't Vaughan-Williams write a low F# for a violin in one
of his symphonies?
I can certainly see how the Sibelius tool is useful, in certain
situations, i.e. the education and non-specialist-engraver markets,
which Sibelius is cleaning up inFar more useful than the
supposedly-equivalent Finale 'check ranges'.
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