Are there specific instruments you're worried about? -Lee
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf > Of timothy.price > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:22 PM > > When we use "check range" when writing for a competent community > orchestra, is there any problem with setting the > parameter to "advanced" for all instruments ? > > thanks, > > tim > > > > On May 13, 2011, at 7:09 PM, John Howell wrote: > > > At 2:53 PM -0700 5/13/11, Mark D Lew wrote: > >> > >> Mahler writes the chorus down to Bb2 in his Symphony #2 (the > basses are divisi, with the others on the next octave up). > > > > I didn't know that, but he and Strauss also wrote some piccolo > parts down to low C and flute parts down to low Bb. The key, I > think, is that he DID know who he was writing for, and knew that > it would be sung, just as he knew that some flutemaker in Vienna > was experimenting with extra-low flutes and piccolos and that his > flute players could get them. > > > > You write for what's available. It's that simple. Every time > Broadwood shipped a new piano with an extended range to > Beethoven, he started using the extra high and low notes > immediately. The difference with Stravinsky is that I'm not sure > he could have known in advance that the extremes he wrote COULD > be played. Josquin (or Pierre de la Rue) also wrote the bass > down to a low Bb at the end of "xxxx," but again we don't know > what pitch standard he was writing for. I assume that Mahler was > writing for somewhere around 435 to 450, if not necessarily 440. > > > > John > > > > > > -- > > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > > Virginia Tech Department of Music > > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > > of jazz musicians. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > timothy.price > [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
