Nice 12 tone in the 3rd bar! > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:42:19 -0700 > From: Blake Richardson <btr1...@gmail.com> > To: "<finale@shsu.edu>" <finale@shsu.edu> > Subject: [Finale] Unusual Notation Question > Message-ID: <edad6677-b181-4ac4-8713-24dff1cad...@ix.netcom.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this. This is a sketch from one of > the EMPIRE cues by John Williams. (It?s the Mynock scene when the bat > creatures are attacking and flying all around the Falcon, if anyone?s > curious.) What exactly does the highlighted notation mean? I'm not sure what > each instrument is supposed to be doing exactly. The first line are piccolos, > the second trumpets, the third woodwinds. Is it just shorthand for > sextuplets, with the first picc/trumpet playing the top notes, like a > tremolo, and the second picc/trumpet playing the bottom notes? If so, it's > strange that Williams would notate it so unusually here when he doesn't do > that anywhere else when the same kind of licks occur. That makes me think he > had something else in mind here. > > I've never seen notation like this for winds before. I've seen it in > occasionally in strings, and it usually denotes a chord cluster, usually at > the beginning or end of a long gliss. That's not what's happening here. > Listening to the recording isn't much help, either. There's too much else > going on for me to make it out clearly. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsxwm5tfctfhqiy/ESB-Excerpt.jpg?dl=0 > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsxwm5tfctfhqiy/ESB-Excerpt.jpg?dl=0>
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