. Orchestration . kmesser. Since Wagners day composers have resorted to muted Trumpets onthe slightest, or no, provocation. Used with discretion they are cap-able both in the / and the p of great effect, but the tone-quality,especially in the /, etches itself so deeply into the mind as to becomeunbearable after a little while. A striking modern example of the muted Trumpets is to be foundin Strausss Till Eulenspiegel. The four-part harmony is arrangedfor two muted Trumpets and two muted Horns both playing m/. Fourmuted Solo Violins, omitted below, double the four Brass parts and aremarked pp.
. Orchestration . kmesser. Since Wagners day composers have resorted to muted Trumpets onthe slightest, or no, provocation. Used with discretion they are cap-able both in the / and the p of great effect, but the tone-quality,especially in the /, etches itself so deeply into the mind as to becomeunbearable after a little while. A striking modern example of the muted Trumpets is to be foundin Strausss Till Eulenspiegel. The four-part harmony is arrangedfor two muted Trumpets and two muted Horns both playing m/. Fourmuted Solo Violins, omitted below, double the four Brass parts and aremarked pp. They make little difference in performance, but serve tosteady, and, so to speak, solidify the Brass harmony. In playing thispassage over on the pianoforte the student must not overlook the factthat the transposition of the F-Trumpets is a fourth upwards, that ofthe F-Horns a fifth downwards. EXAMPLE 41. Twice as quick. Strauss. Till Eulenspicgsl. 2 Trumpets in sordini. 2 Horns in A second and much more elaborate example will be found laterunder the heading The Tubas (Ex. 95). In this quotation (fromStrausss Don Quixote Variations) the three Muted Trumpets inD play one of the chief subjects of the work accompanied by MutedTubas, Oboe, Double-Bassoon and Muted Strings. The student shouldexamine the Trumpet parts of this extract. They give a good idea ofthe executive capabilities of the modern instrument. No. 18. The Bass-Trumpet. Fr. Trompette Basse ; It. Tromba Bassa ; Ger. Basstrompete. This Trumpet, as imagined by Richard Wagner for the Ring, wasto be an instrument of Brobdingnagian length and Brobdingnagiantone-colour, with a compass which extended from the bottom notes of theTenor Trombone to the topmost notes of the French Horn. The actualnotes of the Harmonic Series which it was to employ ranged from the3rd 102 ORCHESTRATION to the 19th ^» $ It was to be played with three crooks, C, D, and Eb, transposing down-wards an octave, a minor s
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