[Trombone-l] Mozart Requiem

[Dennis Clason]

Colla voce ... with the voices.

Dennis

Erik Tkal wrote:
> I have the Vienna Philharmonic von Karajan recording and that certainly 
> does:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Requiem-Tomowa-Sintow-Molinari-Burchuladze/dp/B000001GK8
>
> A couple of years ago we played the requiem in a local community 
> orchestra and I was disappointed that the trombone parts were so sparse, 
> not matching the recording that I had been listening to at all!  So I 
> went online and found a MIDI file that did have trombones scored 
> throughout, with the alto (for the most part) matching the altos, tenor 
> playing with the tenors, and the bass trombone with the basses.  I 
> forget, but there is a musical term for this (a colletti or something, 
> "with the voices"?).  So I imported the MIDI into Encore and printed new 
> parts for us, which we rehearsed since there was no choir until the 
> dress rehearsal.  I asked the choir director then if we should continue 
> to play the parts I had printed instead of the edition distributed to 
> us, and he said of course, he was expecting that we would be playing 
> those parts.
>
>   Erik Tkal
>