The difference between "intermediate" and "advanced" became a bit restrictive, most notably with the f french horns. The lowest written note permitted was a F in the base clef below middle C when I would like to take it down to the B. Actual pitch lowest sound would be, in "intermediate" , C ... but the advanced setting allows another full octave bellow to the low B.
So, as the horns are important here... the trombones have other business, I would like to keep the lower range in the french horns, but I do not want to make the music too difficult to produce a good tone with a community orchestra. I have heard them play the overture to Candide, but I have no idea of their range in that piece. t On May 13, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Lee Actor wrote: > Are there specific instruments you're worried about? > > -Lee > >> From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu]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:john.how...@vt.edu) >>> 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 >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> timothy.price >> timothy.pr...@valley.net >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale timothy.price timothy.pr...@valley.net _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
