Robert Patterson wrote:
Raymond Horton wrote:
Where has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a
C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be
written to be sounding 8ba.
I believe at-pitch treble is fairly common in contemporary orchestral
scores. This week we are playing Corigliano "Fantasy on an Ostinato".
There was some confusion about the correct octave for a very high bass
harmonic that I suspect was due to this issue.
Bass harmonics _should_ be specified very carefully in the part. The
best solution is to write "real sound (sounding 8ba)" or I suppose
"real sound (non 8ba)" could work. Once, when I put only "real sound"
by some harmonics, members of our bass section asked whether or not it
was to be 8ba. I had been taught that "real sound" always meant 8ba,
such as in Stravinsky _Agon_ .
I'll check with members of our bass section again, (before we go
bankrupt) Since we see more contemporary music than most orchestras (or
used to, anyway - now , sometimes, it seems like we see more country and
pop back-up music than anything else) they ought to know what the
current standards are.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist
occasional composer, arranger
Louisville Orchestra
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