A friend of mine had the following questions.
I am working up Bozza's En foret for a recital this spring, and came up with
a question:
Do the markings sons naturels indicate that the passages so annotated be
played as if on a natural horn
That marking appears in the Leduc edition (i) in the recitative between
rehearsal numbers 4 and 5; (ii) at 5, and (iii) at 7. The first two appear after
passages marked sons bouches, suggesting that sons naturels simply means
"open;" however, the marking at 7 appears after a passage (the quotation of
Victimae paschali laudes ) which is apparently to be played open. Moreover, the
next sound marking is a plein son at 8, suggesting that sons naturels might mean
something other than simply "open."
The only recording I have heard of this piece is Cerminaro's; he plays
the sons naturels passages in ordinary open fashion on the valved horn. He
makes no use of the natural horn sound anywhere in the piece . Considering that
En foret is attributed to be a contest piece (pour cor chromatique ), it
seems to me that the composer would have intended to include at least one passage
in natural horn style.
Gotta go,
Cabbage
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