At 10:00 PM -0400 8/23/07, Raymond Horton wrote:
The instrumentation difference is not quite as major as you make it
seem, really. Just look at this list from David's link:
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* Full Score
* (4) C Flute + opt Pic * (1) Eb Clarinet
* (3) 1'st Bb Clarinets
* (3) 2'nd Bb Clarinets
* (3) 3'rd Bb Clarinets
* (1) Bb Bass Clarinet*
* (2) Bassoon*
* (2) 1'st Eb Alto Sax
* (2) 2'nd Eb Alto Sax
* (1) Tenor Sax * (1) Baritone Sax*
* (2) Solo Cornet**
* (2) 1'st Trumpet
* (2) 2'nd Trumpet * (2) 1'st-2'nd Horn in F
* (2) 3'rd-4'th Horn in F
* (2) 1'st Trombone
* (2) 2'nd Trombone
* (1) BC Baritone Horn * (1) TC Baritone Horn * (2) Tuba
* (1) Snare Drum * (2) Bass Drum & Cymbals.
* = optional parts not included in original edition.
** = solo here just indicates the melody. It can and should be doubled.
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The re-editing in this case consisted of adding parts for Bass
Clarinet, Bassoons, and Bar. Sax. Simple enough - most of that
would come from the tuba part or an upper octave bass line part
(probably both in the bassoons). Earlier works for wind groups
generally did not have sax parts, so more work (and more editorial
presumption) would be needed in those cases.
The marches and "smears" I downloaded have a few more problems.
ALWAYS Db piccolo, and sometimes no C flute parts. Sometimes oboe,
sometimes not, and bassoons likewise. Sometimes no saxes, but other
times saxes including soprano (and never 1st and 2nd alto). And the
brass parts often seem to reflect a saxhorn band plus trombones, or
perhaps the English/European brass band background: cornets rather
than trumpets, including Eb cornet in many cases; Eb altos; Bb
tenors, PLUS Bb baritones, PLUS 2 trombones sometimes in treble clef
and sometimes in bass. And never, EVER anything like a full score.
Not even a condensed score. Just a Solo Cornet part with a few cues
in it.
Don't get me wrong; transcribing is possible and I plan to work on
some, but I'm working from PDFs of scans of the original quickstep
sized parts, and sometimes the scans are ambiguous about things like
ledger lines. The first thing I'll have to do is to reconstruct a
full score of the original version, just to make sure I can see
everything that's happening and how the doublings are balanced.
Of course I'm at a bit of a disadvantage because I hate the concept
of just borrowing lines from existing parts and pasting them into the
parts I'm adding, but sometimes that's the only thing you can do and
remain true to the original. When I add String Paks to holliday band
arrangements, on the other hand, I always try to add some new
sweetening that is NOT in the original.
Fun, though!
John
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