Beethoven 5 is usually considered the first appearance in a symphony of trombones, contrabassoon, and piccolo. The contrabassoon mostly doubles the string bass parts. When my community orchestra played Beethoven 5 years ago the contra was just left out, and not missed. Another community orchestra gave the part to a tuba.
ajr > Speaking of bassoons, I went to a symphony concert this weekend, > wherein was performed Beethoven 5. Included in the instrumentation > was a Contra Bassoon, which was used only (as best I could see) in > the last movement, doubling the Third Bone part. I don't have a > score to the work, so can anyone tell me if that is a standard > instrumentation, or an edition of which I've not heard before, or > perhaps the conductor just wanted the bass sound reinforced? > > Thanks in advance, > > Dean > > On Jan 19, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >> >> On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> >>> On Mon, January 19, 2009 2:39 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: >>>> Can the down-arrowhead be an outline for a dotted-half value? >>> >>> I don't know. He only identifies the solid version of each symbol, >>> which >>> is typical throughout the book. Since the book is 1966 (DE) 1972 >>> (EN), I'd >>> imagine things might have been clarified since. >>> >>> Dennis >>> >> >> Speaking as a bassoonist, I can assure you that any notation you >> use will be unfamiliar, and so *must* be accompanied with a verbal >> instruction such as "reed only" or the like. As a composer, I would >> use X-shaped noteheads, add the instruction "with reed only", and >> place the notes on the middle line of the staff. On any subsequent >> recurrences, I would shorten the instruction just to "reed." If I >> wanted the buzz to vary in pitch, I would eliminate the staff lines >> and place the various (X-shaped) noteheads at higher or lower >> levels within the blank space. >> >> I would use this same notation for the oboe, and for clarinet/sax/ >> brass mouthpiece played alone (except of course that the >> instruction would be "mouthpiece alone"). >> >> Andrew Stiller >> Kallisti Music Press >> http://www.kallistimusic.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > Canto ergo sum > > Dean M. Estabrook > http://deanestabrook.googlepages.com/home > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
