Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
It's customary to declare the notes a tympani will play at the start of
a score ( I'm told).
I have four notes ... G A B D...does it matter the ORDER I list them
with the header in the score?
I currently have "Tympani (G A B D)"
Current spelling is "Timpani" -- I label the staff something more like
this (probably will only look right in a fixed-width font):
D
B
Timpani A
G
I do it this way to clarify which order I want the drums and pitches to
be tuned. For ideal placement, I simply label the staff "Timpani" with
the word centered top-to-bottom, and with enough space to the right so I
can insert the actual pitches as expressions. That way the word Timpani
is centered between the middle two pitch labels.
Then when the drums need to be retuned, be sure to specify something
like "change D to E" to save the timpanist time in having to figure out
the changes.
--
David H. Bailey
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