At 1:03 PM -0500 9/13/07, Patrick Sheehan wrote:
It's true that it's played on a piccolo in the traditional pit
orchestras of today; I conducted it a few years ago and had my
flutist put on her "picclist" hat for those moments.
I don't argue that a soprano recorder should be used, but it may not
carry if your orchestra is (as it should be) IN the pit, not
backstage or wherever-else. Flutists who are not very verse on
recorders would have a tendency to crack on the notes, as well.
Agreed, although that's just another way of saying that doublers
should not double on instruments they don't know how to play!
Luckily the tune is in F, and the dotted / triplet figure that is so
famous doesn't contain any accidentals, so it "lays easy" on the
instrument.
There are no difficult fingerings on recorder, only difficult
fingering COMBINATIONS, but I certainly take your point.
But the reason i brought it up as a notation problem in the first
place is that it is notated an octave higher in the part than it
would be in a correctly notated soprano recorder part, which means
that the orchestrator (or the copyist) was ignorant of proper
recorder notation. I could have put down my viola and played the
part on recorder (and read it down an octave), but we had a good
piccolist and it wasn't really worth the trouble.
John
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