I don't know about the baroque, but trumpets in G (Robbins Landon calls them "English trumpets") were quite unusual for Haydn. The 88th symphony is quite unusual in having trumpets and drums in G in the the 3rd (and probably 4th) movement, and the appearance of (IIRC) C trumpets in the second movement after a trumpetless opening movement was considered quite a surprise.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Patrick Clow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:22 PM Subject: [Finale] O.T. G Major : Trumpets rare? > I'm curious if having Trumpets in G Major is unsual for baroque music? > I know E Flat is kind of rare, Bach used that in the Magnificat for > example. But I'm curious why the composer just didn't transpose this G > Major sinfonia to D, where trumpets were more common. > > Thanks very much, > Kim > > -- > Kim Patrick Clow > "There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Rossini > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
