Hi William - here's my 2 cents worth: to avoid the severest intonation and smoothness issues, stay with short fingerings on the F horn, and long fingerings on the Bb horn. So - Db, use trigger 2/3, Eb use trigger 1, but the F, use F horn 1. The Db might be low (or high - depends on your horn) - use your hand to fix the Db, and any other note.
As for sound, keep in mind that it's not a horn solo section - the horn is used in collaboration with other instruments. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Hornlist] Mahler 1 Excerpt Question I'm working on the Mahler 1 2nd horn part from the 3rd movement (the low horn excerpt which is at rehearsal number 13 I believe). Its on an audition. We were given the excerpt from the Labar book and so I went ahead and pulled together the first and second horn parts from the orchestral work and looked over them just to get a better grasp of what's going on. I've also got the score handy too. Now my questions are with fingerings and intonation. I've always thought my low range was adequate but when recording myself I find a few inconsistencies which I don't like. The sound never is a rich sonorous pianissimo which I think would suit the piece better. It's more of a nasally mezzo forte so I'm working on my low range sound a lot. The first question is should I go for a more beefy soft sound or a velvety sonorous soft sound? My next question lies with fingerings. I've written out a lot of different options and discussed with my teacher on some of them but I really would like some opinions from everyone on what they use when they perform this excerpt. To assist with intonation I recorded myself playing the piano two octaves higher the exact same notes so that I could play with the recording and have a reference to tune to since in the actual piece you tune to the first horn player (which I've recorded too). And I've noticed that with different fingerings it sometimes sacrifices smoothness for sound or vice versa. Plus with some fingerings the intonation is not good at all (long horns and multi-valve combinations) but with shorter fingerings it seems to sound more clunky. So I'm really looking for that balance between the two. I know easier fingerings won't improve the overall low range sound I have - but I would like to know what fingerings you guys use so when I get the sound I want it will be as smooth as possible. What do you guys recommend? -William _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/sclark9988%40msn.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
