yep this is an orchestration class I'm in. Mainly this thing will have some g2 and d3 notes in there with some rests. It's a very simple piece and I'm making it sound simple by having a lot of times where they don't play lol! I'm starting to hate the piece but ah well. I'll look at this thread again when I get there as I'm still working in the horn calls. Blah~ and all of this is due by monday.
Thanks all. On May 8, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Carl Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > (Thinks back to orchestration class four years ago) > > The timpani (technically this is a plural noun) will be notated on one staff. > If I remember correctly, there are standard-sized timpani, each with its own > range. The practice I was taught in orchestrating for timpani (by a > percussionist) was to basically assign each drum a pitch in their range > (preferably in the middle of the range, for the best sound) as a starting > point. You can move from this, but keep in mind that it can take a > non-trivial amount of time to change the pitch of a drum, so a good starting > place for writing this is (drone on drum 1) | (drone on drum 2 while pedaling > drum 1 to a new pitch) | (drone on drum 1 at the new pitch). Silence in the > transition period is also good, as it allows a timpanist to quietly play the > timpani to make sure the pitch is right > > The bass and snare will generally be written on a single percussion line, > particularly since there is one performer (they can. I've not done any > composition for percussion in LilyPond (I think I saw documentation for > this), but this is notated on a percussion staff where each line and space in > combination with a certain notehead indicates the instrument to be played. > See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion_notation. > > The end result would be two staves without grouping, one for timpani and > another for the bass/snare. > > Cheers, > Carl > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. I'v never seen percussion music so I don't even know how to looks. I have > to in this final assignment write for 3 timponies, 1 player playing them, a > bass drum and symbol, one player playing them and a snare. > > I know there are to be 3 percussion lines, but in the case of the timpani's > how do I indicate which ones they need, or should I? and in the case of the > non pitched instruments how do I indicate those notes, or rhythms that is? > Sorry if I'm not making sense. I'm not a band nerd. lol! should I do new > staff groups? or is it all 3 lines on 1 staff? if so yuck! > > Take care. and thanks all. > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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