I prefer the notation suggested in Kurt Stone's "Music Notation in the 20th Century" on p. 186 at the bottom. It's not particular convenient to render in Finale but it can be done.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Rich Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
