Musical questions and answers thread

[Ferretfancy]

It's an oldie,I know, but what's the difference between an oboe and an oboe d'amore?

Answer ;- Half a guinea a night.

[MrGongGong]

The word is indeed often used to describe a similar effect produced by alternative fingerings of the same pitch on woodwind instruments.
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Do you think of this as different to an enharmonic trill so beloved of the ECM Sax fraternity ? (I used to know someone who had programmed his reverb with a setting called "Garbareks Bathroom")

[ahinton]

It's an oldie,I know, but what's the difference between an oboe and an oboe d'amore?

Answer ;- Half a guinea a night.

Indeed, its age is given away by the sum!

[Richard Barrett]

It used to be the case that some British orchestras would employ "rank and file" violinists, who would take turns between Firsts and Seconds, changing between concerts/programmes. I don't know how widespread this practice ever was or if it still exists.

Not sure what the situation is in Quartets - I think most have permanent First and Second "chairs".

In most (by no means all) orchestras someone is employed as a first or a second violinist and stays there. If a place becomes vacant there will be auditions, which of course existing orchestra members can compete in, if it involves a step from seconds to firsts, or from rank and file to principal or co-principal of the section. String quartets are a bit different. Most stay in the same order permanently. Others (the Emersons being a prominent example) exchange violinists for different pieces in a programme.

[Flay]

Thanks for the replies. No doubt the same applies to woodwind. But brass seem somewhat different, especially the horn sections. I'm never sure who's leading them. Perhaps it doesn’t matter

[Pabmusic]

Thanks for the replies. No doubt the same applies to woodwind. But brass seem somewhat different, especially the horn sections. I'm never sure who's leading them. Perhaps it doesn’t matter

With horns, you ought to expect two types (I can almost hear the wrath of our horn players rumbling away). There are those that are more 'expert' in the upper range, and those good at grumbling in the depths. The former will usually be horns 1 & 3, the latter, horns 2 & 4.

There won't be a section leader comparable to the case with the violins. The principal horn will no doubt have a preference as to seating (1 & 3 in front. 2 & 4 behind?).

[ahinton]

If some would have their way, many of the questions that have been asked in this thread might no longer be deemed to be of importance...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/response-to-charlotte-c-gill-article-on-music-and-notation-full-list-of-signatories/

Some members here have already signed, as have hundreds of others as diverse as Simon Rattle, Marc-André Hamelin, Michael Nyman, the Matthewses, Stephen Hough, Unsuk Chin, James Galway, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Powell, James McMillan, Andrew McGregor, Jane Manning and Anthony Payne; might I invite more members to consider doing so?

As you were...

[MrGongGong]

If some would have their way, many of the questions that have been asked in this thread might no longer be deemed to be of importance...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/response-to-charlotte-c-gill-article-on-music-and-notation-full-list-of-signatories/

Some members here have already signed, as have hundreds of others as diverse as Simon Rattle, Marc-André Hamelin, Michael Nyman, the Matthewses, Stephen Hough, Unsuk Chin, James Galway, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Powell, James McMillan, Andrew McGregor, Jane Manning and Anthony Payne; might I invite more members to consider doing so?

As you were...

It is interesting how this has touched a nerve with some folks

It was a rather badly written and daft article in the first place IMV

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It was a rather badly written and daft article in the first place IMV

- my immediate reaction was that it was an April 1st Spoof.

[ahinton]

- my immediate reaction was that it was an April 1st Spoof.

Mine, too, until I realised that is had been published five days earlier...

[ahinton]

It is interesting how this has touched a nerve with some folks

It was a rather badly written and daft article in the first place IMV

That's probably the very best that could be said about it!

[Richard Barrett]

an enharmonic trill so beloved of the ECM Sax fraternity ?

I'm rather fond of them myself to be honest. (the trills not the ECM sax fraternity)(with one or two exceptions)

[Beef Oven!]

[Richard Barrett]

What a pathetic question.

[Beef Oven!]

What a pathetic question.

To you maybe!

The real question concerns why anyone would want to wear a t-shirt like that!

He must be very good at making pancakes