The large orchestral piece I'm working on now calls for this effect through most of it, in all of the brass and woodwinds (w/o mouthpieces or reeds depending on instrument), mostly p or mp. He notated this in his manuscript with a clef (since it's large sections, not just a note here and there). I've never come across this before, so I simply followed his notation and created a custom clef as a vertical rectangle, sort of like a percussion rectangular clef, but larger. The notes just lie on the middle line, as there are no pitches specified.
Since this has coincidentally come up today, I figure I should ask, is this is a notation others have seen? On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > IIRC Ligeti calls on his brass players in Atmosphères to blow air through the > instruments without any definite pitch or characteristic brass instrument > sound. Does anyone here know of others who have done this, and what the > limits are? (You'd think having been a brass player I'd know this, but > nothing comes to mind at the moment.) > > Aaron J. Rabushka > arabus...@austin.rr.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
