On 21-Jan-09, at 21-Jan-09 3:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
... the most common trombone section of the classical era was
three Bb tenors.
Both Mozart and Beethoven (and at least a few early Romantics)
routinely write the bass trombone down to C. No valveless tenor can
play this note. So much for that theory.
What Ray said was that three tenors was the most common section that
PERFORMED in the classical era. These composers may very well have
written the notes, but they weren't played on a bass instrument very
often, by all reports.
Also, "routinely" might be a bit of an exaggeration. A C might show
up from time to time, but not in every work by a long shot. They may
have written it when they knew they were going to have the player,
which might not have been all that often (it might say more about my
lack of wide experience when I say that I have never seen Mozart
write a C.)
Christopher
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