I do not know any piece by Verdi written for horn A-alto or Ab-alto. The requiem surely asks for A-basso & Ab-basso. The conductors should know it from the score. It seems they cannot even imagine how a score should sound. Poor conductors, you have failed your profession. Is just money counting your business ?
Verdi used the horns in different transpositions as did Wagner & Strauss. Why ? The hornplayer like "clean" notation without many accidentals. Tonalty A would require 4# for the F-horn, so there are none if the horn part is in A. And these A- or Ab-basso parts run just simple chords, never runs etc., so it is easy to transpose these spots. In the Requiem there are not longer passages to play. As Daniel said, just no.1 & no.3 are in these quite rare transpositions. ============================================================ ==================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Canarutto Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:16 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Verdi Requiem Horns III & IV in Verdi Requiem have Nr.1 written for horn in A, and Nr.3 written for horn in Ab. I'm pretty sure that these are A basso and Ab basso, but I'd appreciate an authoritative confirmation since the conductor (a fine singer and choir master) says she does not really know. These parts are fairly chromatic at places, and I wonder why they were not all written for horn in F, since when Verdi wrote this work the valved F horn should have been the standard instrument... am I wrong? By the way, if anybody is planning to be in Florence on october 23, you can find the play-bill at http://poincare.dma.unifi.it/~canarutto/23ottobre05/ Daniel _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
