Well......they actually may have had good reason: some editions (I believe Boosey is one) swap the higher alto trombone licks with the trumpets == and so ultimately, in this arranged version, the 'bones really don't have much to get excited about! Les Marsden (209) 966-6988 New Cell: (559) 708-6027 7145 Snyder Creek Road Mariposa, CA 95338-9641
Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Dean M. Estabrook To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself (SomewhatOT) Geez ... and the trb. section looked so calm the other night! Perhaps they were petrified. Thanks, Dean On Jan 20, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > Yup, we see it as making us wait 300 years to play with the big > boys, THEN we STILL have to wait until the last freakin' movement > when our chops are nice and stiff from lack of use, THEN he makes > the first trombone enter (first entrance in HISTORY, not just this > symphony!) cold on a high C (almost guaranteed to chip it and > embarrass the entire brotherhood as a result) AND later in the > movement he makes him play a high F (this is test!) just to see if > he was paying attention. To my knowledge, there is no higher note > written in the standard repertoire until late in the 20th century. > Talk about your opening night nerves! > > And I don't have any first-hand knowledge of how those trombonists > made out their first night, but after the 6th (he gave them another > chance), Ludwig didn't write trombones into a symphony again until > the 9th, so maybe that is a hint. > > Although in the 9th, the voice of God is represented by the men in > the chorus, plus the bass trombone. We trombonists see that as > typical typecasting. 8-) > > Christopher > > (strictly speaking, there were trombones the year before Beethoven > in Eggert's Symphony in Eflat, but he wasn't as influential, so > Beethoven gets the credit here. Chalk one up for P.R. and > reputation...) > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
