As someone who writes a lot for band, I can say that a great deal of flexibility already exists. There is no prescribed standard.
This works both for and against the composer: I can ask for just about anything (8 horns, bass sax, harp, electric bass), but I have also seen pieces with a more common instrumentation performed without critical instruments (no oboe, no Eb clar, whatever). -Carolyn Bremer On 8/24/07, Daniel Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a general aesthetic question for people involved in bands. Is > there a rationale beyond the pedagogical for wanting band scores to meet > some prescribed contemporary and standardized instrumentation? Might > there not be some legitimate musical reasons for omitting certain > instruments or requiring others, or for allowing or disallowing optional > doublings or playing cue note? If someone has articulated a case for a > particular standard for band instrumentation, I'd certainly be > interested in reading it. > > Daniel Wolf > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
