Hi all, I’m really hoping to enlist someone who regularly writes for band to give me some advice.
I’m writing this for a top notch, professional group. Some questions: For score order, there seem to be some variations from orchestral standard. But different sources say different things. Here are my questions: 1) Some say bassoons go between Ob/Eng Horn and Clarinets. Others say they go below clarinets. Which is more standard these days for professional bands? 2) Some say the trumpets above the horns, others say this is changing these days to standard orchestral (horns above trumpets because they often mingle with the saxophones). Which is more standard these days for professional bands? 3) Double bass, I’m told, goes below the tuba, but above piano — then timp plus percussion on the bottom. Is this standard these days for professional bands? My orchestral instincts want it at the very bottom. The group I’m writing for could be full band or wind ensemble (my choice), so as many as Eb clarinet, 12 Bb clarinets (4 to each of three parts), 2-3 low clarinets (bass, contra, alto), 6 cornets (2 to each of three parts) plus 2 trumpets — though any of the cornet players could play trumpet, picc trumpet, or flugelhorn. Then 2 euphoniums, 3 tubas. I’m leaning towards asking for one to a part (clarinets as Eb, 2 Bb, alto cl, bass cl); 3-6 trumpets, 1 euphonium, 1 tuba. Can anyone advise as to why I should go with all the doubled parts? Thinking as someone coming from the orchestra world, all those extra clarinets, trumpets, euphoniums/tubas seem to be a strange and troublesome counterbalance to the rest of the group (pic, 3 fl, 2 ob, eh, 2 bn, cbn, sax quartet, 4 horns, 3 trb, btrb). And does band vs wind ensemble change any of the score order? Final question: According to Gould in "Behind Bars,” people do NOT remove empty staves! She grants that timp/percussion can be removed from the page if they aren’t playing, but everyone else stays, doesn’t have empty staves removed from any of the pages. Is this really true!!!??? Thanks very much in advance! David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
