[Trombone-l] Calling our musicologists...

Howard Weiner h.weiner at online.de
Mon Mar 2 11:26:50 CST 2009


At 11:28 02.03.2009 -0500, thetubameister at roadrunner.com wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>Howard et al: I've just been engaged to play "tuba" for Mascagni's 
>"L'amico Fritz".  I'm sure the part will be marked "tuba", but as a 
>19th c. Italian Opera, I'm suspicious of this.  What's this really written for?

Good question! Here is the instrumentation given on the Italian 
Wikipedia page for "L'amico Fritz" http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27amico_Fritz


La <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitura>partitura di Mascagni 
prevede l'utilizzo di
    * 2 <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flauto_traverso>flauti, 2 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe>oboi, 2 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarinetto>clarinetti, 2 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagotto>fagotti
    * 4 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corno_%28strumento_musicale%29>corni, 2 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromba>trombe, 3 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone>tromboni
    * <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timpani>timpani, 
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussione>percussione
    * 2 <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpa>arpe
    * <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archi_%28musica%29>archi
    * <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_musicale>banda interna
Since there is apparently no tuba in the orchestra, you might have 
been hired to play in the banda, the on- or back-stage band. In that 
case, a bombardon or a small tuba would probably be in order.

Ciao!
Howard


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Howard Weiner
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Tosca jumped to a conclusion.  



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