Hmm...very luxuriant! Such a wide selection of double reeds is quite a luxury in many bands nowadays (I remember only being able to write one each oboe and bassoon part when I wrote my HS band stuff).
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk > There is a great deal of continuity between Sousa's instrumentation and > that of contemporary bands, but there are couple of features worth > noting. All flutes doubled on piccolo. Two oboes, 2nd doubling EH. The > Bb clarinet section was large (12-27 players), with only one alto and > one bass clarinet. Earlier Sousa bands used Eb Clarinet, but he > discontinued this in favor of adding more flutes. The use of > contrabassoon (or, in one season, contrabass sarrusaphone) was limited > to a few seasons and was doubled by the second (of two) bassoonists. The > sax section varied from four to eight players. Trumpets and cornets > were strongly segregated, not doubling, usually in a two trumpet to four > cornet ratio, although in the earlier years the lower cornet parts were > taken by flugelhorns. Always four horns, and four trombones to two (or > later) one euphonium. Sousa only had upright-bell sousaphones, and the > earlier bands used a mixture of tubas and sousaphone, while the later > bands used sousaphones exclusively. Always three percussionists. The > band membership also included a female vocalist, a violinist, and a > harpist as soloists, with the harpist also a standard member of the full > ensemble, seated front center between woodwinds and brasses. > > 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
