Context being key was why I was looking for examples in rep. BTW I found that very B in La Valse in the bar before reh. number 66. (But it also looks like an arco indication may be missing 4 before 66.)
I had a friend of mine do it for me yesterday. It didn't seem to be a problem. Obviously it's all attack and no decay, but there was both plenty of sound and plenty of pitch. I think it will work well for me. I want to add zing to the attack on a flute sfz note. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:16 PM, John Howell <john.how...@vt.edu> wrote: > At 10:30 AM -0500 5/13/11, Robert Patterson wrote: > >> I'm curious to know if the collected wisdom of this list knows of examples >> in orchestral rep. of violin pizz. notes of b''' (5 leger line-b) or >> higher. >> Obviously, the closer to standard rep., the more likely I am to have the >> score and/or recording. >> >> I have googled references to Berlioz having written a'''. This seems like >> a >> question that Gardner Read's excellent "Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices" >> might answer, but it doesn't specifically address the question. >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > > Perhaps that's because, with respect, it's a meaningless question. Write > the notes you want and we will play them. You might not like the SOUND you > get, of course, just as I would probably never write for the top octave of > the piano, but there is no theoretical limit to the highest range on the > violin. And pizz. is not really a special effect at all. > > Just don't write anything below a small g!!! > > (And yeah, I know it's been done, but scordatura was a lot easier in the > days of gut strings than it is today.) > > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > 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
