Hornfolks: I am preparing several posts incorporating all of the wonderful responses, especially where orchestra pranks are concerned and I am going to do my best NOT to post a LOT, but I wish to respond to this one request:
I do not know of any horn & trombone duets; however there IS the Poulenc Trio for Trumpet, Horn & Trombone. As an aside; I had to play this along w/the other coaches at a youth music camp. We had a fine trumpet & trombone player & were very well rehearsed. Well, guess what happened? We come out on stage and begin playing and boy, does it sound STRANGE. Rather like twelve-tone music and since we were in performance, we could not stop to find out what was going on. We found out in the end that the trumpet part was in C and our trumpet player had accidentally loaded up his B Flat trumpet (and this is a guy who loved to carry 4 or 5 axes in one case just to 'show off'. He was also what I call an 'arrogant' trumpet player (it kind of goes with being a principal trumpet player); but that day he was nothing, if not completely embarrassed with himself. I and the trombonist made no comment as none was necessary. And, this is even funnier; the audience loved it-and they had no idea we were doing it wrong :} This is a nice little work and lots of fun. I recommend it highly, should you not be able to locate something for horn and bone. However, if you wish to practice your C in bass clef (or for that matter your E flat horn transposition); go right ahead and score some trombone duets and have at it. Some of those 1st bone ledger lines can be challenging. I got accustomed to them while playing 1st bone in a stage band back in '75, but back then they didn't hit you with a hundred sharps or flats and one had a chance to have at least one rehearsal on the music. However, it had been oh, about 25 years since I'd seen what I'm about to tell you about here. In my church, last Sunday, I just did 2 shows of what I call an 'attempted suicide' piece; on 1st trombone as some of the bone players were not there and I had a tacet sheet on the work for horn. This bone part included sight reading 6 flats and 5 ledger lines all the way through. The piece was 176 to the quarter note and done in 2/2 , not to mention the good ol' fast swing style with double DSS 'road maps' which all churches love because you can do the choruses OVER and OVER and OVER again for more of that spiritual experience or whatever. After that one, I seriously wanted to go out into my car and take a nice lie-down and remember that I am supposed to be a horn player, not a bone player :} best wishes Rachel _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
