Klarinet Archive - Posting 000100.txt from 2011/01

From: Erik Tkal <qtkal@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Trombones in K. 626
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:16:34 -0500

I got to play the tenor trombone solo once (actually twice, and one performance was in a nice big church which made it sound awesome).

The parts that we received from the rental agency had very little trombone in it, yet when I listened to my CD there were definitely trombones throughout, as was also indicated in the Dover score I bought. So I went online and found a MIDI arrangement that had the appropriate parts and imported it into Encore and printed it out for my section.

At the dress rehearsal when we finally got together with the chorus I mentioned this to the choral director, and he said he was expecting us to play those parts.

I usually played first chair, but if there were explicitly alto parts (especially if very high) I'd concede to someone else who actually had an alto trombone, so that's how I managed to get the tuba mirim solo, though I have a King 4B large bore tenor that I currently use to play both bass trombone in orchestra and lead horn in jazz band...

Erik

On 9 Jan, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Dan Leeson wrote:

As a common practice in 18th century church music that used a chorus, the alto, tenor, and bass trombones were used to support the alto, tenor, and bass voices of the chorus. It is unclear why Mozart used the tenor trombone (or trombone 2 if you prefer) other than the obvious fact that the character of that instrument is more stentorian than the bass trombone which should, in theory, have been his choice since the trombone solo immediately precedes the entrance of the bass singer.

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