My apologies for double posting, but I can't recall which list had a recent discussion of Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and attendant problems.
Our orchestra has just begun rehearsals on that obscure and unknown work, the Franck D minor Symphony :-). The music is "courtesy of Kalmus" and I noticed that it was a copy of the original French edition, notated just like the Sorcerer's Apprentice (1st and 2nd on the same page). I also noticed that it has the same lousy, badly placed page turns as the Dukas, which was recently discussed on one of the lists. Looking at it during the first rehearsal and muttering to myself, I had an epiphany: it was not the original publisher's fault. My guess is that in order to use less paper, or out of sheer carelessness, Kalmus simply copied the original parts from the outside rather than inside. Confused? What I mean is that if you left the first page blank (probably had the title on it), and started on the inside left page, with the next page on the right facing it when propped on the music stand, the rests would come in the right place. I recopied the Franck that way and it works beautifully except for one page turn. Did it on the Dukas, and it isn't absolutely perfect (sometimes there's only one bar rest) but it is certainly more feasible then the Kalmus version. By the way, I agree about that passage in the Dukas between 49 and 50. It is truly tough. It took me a lot of work to get it accurately up to speed. Well...at least up to speed! The second horn was about to give up and take up the kazoo. Apropos echo horn in the Dukas, I'm curious to know how you all do it. It's relatively rare in the literature, so there aren't a lot of opportunities to do it. I played it by hand stopping the horn about 3/4 or so to lower the tone a 1/2 step and fingering the passage a 1/2 step higher to play the written pitch. Are there other ways? Richard in Seattle _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
