----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Sherber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >And by the way, in a professional context even your answer doesn't > >hold. Many orchestral players use a C trumpet to play Bb parts, > > This is all true, but it's a choice of the player rather than the intent of > the composer. For example, the trumpet figure at the start of the 2/2 in > the Hansel and Gretel prelude is written for E trumpet. For a player to > take this on a Bb or C instrument would give it a completely different > timbre, which may or may not be acceptable to the conductor. The fact that > the part is written for E trumpet gives a sense of the color which a plain > part in C, to be played on whatever instrument, does not. > > Aaron. Are you a trumpet player, Aaron? Just curious. I doubt that part is played on E trumpet one time out of 100. I also doubt anyone but a trumpet player with a great ear, could pick out when a E trumpet plays it, in a blind test. In third trumpet auditions, we did have a few foolhardy souls try to play the First Eb _Heldenleben_ part (including the pedal C) on Eb, but none did it well. (That was easy to tell from the other side of the screen.) But Strauss's Eb trumpet would have been twice as long, wouldn't it? Ray Horton _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
