On 20 Dec 2008 at 23:21, John Howell wrote: > At 6:35 PM -0500 12/20/08, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >We played two concerts last week, and we played a couple of pieces > >where we had 7 viols playing. That's a pretty amazing sound, but not > >one you're going to hear very often! > > Apologies, List; this should have been private, > but I don't have David's address. > > David: Were you by any chance playing the > Musikalisches Exequien? We did it at Indiana a > good long while ago, when we had 7 viols > available, and it was a really luscious sound, > not what I expected from Schütz.
Nope. We did a Tomkins verse anthem that goes from 6 to 8 parts at the end. We rewrote the end to cover all the crucial material on 7 viols, since that's all we had. We also played the Altenburg Intrada that we discussed here on the list recently in regard to my scanning issues. That had five parts plus the choral and we put 2 viols doubling the choral. In addition, we did a Gabrieli Hodie Christus natus est for 2 choirs, and I arranged a basso seguente part so that we could cover it with only 7 viols. Anything with 7 real viol parts probably wouldn't have worked, as the additional 2 we've added are new players (though quite talented) who aren't experienced enough yet to be fully reliable in handling everything in a fully polyphonic texture (the Tomkins was kind of rocky in places, in fact). But it sure did sound good when it was working! -- 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
