On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
It's customary to declare the notes a tympani will play at the start of a score ( I'm told).
One timpano, two timpani, no Y in either of them.
I have four notes ... G A B D...does it matter the ORDER I list them with the header in the score?
What is actually semi-customary is to show a little fragment of staff with noteheads on it (in the instrument list before the actual score). Every note on the timpani except maybe B can be played in either of two octaves, so just giving the note names is not enough info.
In fact, though, there are a great many timpani parts (including almost all the great classical scores) in which this kind of advance directive is not given, so I wouldn't worry about it, were I you.
And no, there is no standard order if the notes are named--though obviously it should be either from highest to lowest or from lowest to highest, not all higgledy-piggledy.
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