Ravel's Concerto for the left hand opens with a contrabassoon playing the melody. Beautiful.
Michael [email protected] http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ >________________________________ >From: Raymond Horton <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:23 PM >Subject: Re: [Finale] OT > >John R. Howell writes: > >> Contrafagotto was very likely an instrument sounding an octave below pitch, >> although it would take a bassoon history specialist to know for sure. (Are >> you there, ContraReed?!!!) > >Not a history project at all, John, the contrabassoon is very much >still with us - present in every full orchestra! > >There is a new version of it that some are touting, called the >"Contraforte" - quite loud, full sounding, and expensive: > ><http://www.eppelsheim.com/kontraforte.php?lang=en> > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
