On 16 Feb 2006 at 23:36, Andrew Stiller wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2006, at 3:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > In the case of the missing cornet parts, my guess is that it's > > pretty clear that your choices are limited to to 2 or 3 different > > notes within any harmonic context, but the figuration and voicing > > need to be determined with no real information on what they should > > have been. > > I think that's overly optimistic. A "cornet solo" could, within the > style of the composer and his period, be quite elaborate and full of > non-harmonic tones of all kinds. . . .
Well, I was assuming accompanimental roles for the cornets, and not any solos. > . . . The guidance from the orchestral > context in such a situation is really very limited, and the variety of > credible solutions immense. . . . If nobody in the rest of the orchestra has the leading part, that might imply that the cornet had it at that point. But if there were a doubling of a cornet solo by another instrument, that could mask the solo role of the cornet, so, yes, you're right -- I was overly optimistic, because I was thinking of a particular kind of cornet part (from my experience with band music, as copyist and arranger). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
