Can someone tell me where one of these great-octave C's for bass 'bone is in something by Beethoven or Mozart? I recall an instance in the Brahms 1st symphony chorale, but not in the works of the other two.
ajr, now waiting for the orginal three tenors to take their bow! > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
