I played the Alladin Suite last year. Several movements call for muted or stopped horn. Nielsen is inconsistent, sometimes calling for mute but notating for stopped horn. One of the movements, The Marketplace at Istaphan, calls for muted horn, but I believe the dynamic marking is fff. (The horns represent the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret.) I used a standard mute, but if I had one, I probably would have used an Alex stopping mute, as it is reputed to be quite loud. A small metal transposing mute might not have been visible from the camera angle.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Henry" <[email protected]> > I was watching the Berlin Philharmonic on the Classic Arts channel > last week and was surprised to see the first horn playing with his hand > out of the bell holding the lower rim. I didn't see a mute. They were > playing outdoors in their "wald-something"tent,performing a piece by > Nielsen called "Alladin" in 2006. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
