Mahler's 1st symphony : Offstage trumpets in the first movement
Mahler's 2nd symphony : Offstage brass ensemble (horns, trumpets)
and timpani in the last movement
Alpen sinfonie (R. Strauss) : Horn ensemble in the third part (The
Ascent /Der Anstieg)
You also have this kind of effects in Opera's such as Madama
Butterfly (G. Puccini) : in the second Act "Coro a bocca chiusa"
there is a viola d'amore playing with a choir offstage.
I hope I helped, i'll try to find other examples.
Good luck and keep us updated !
Victor ROSI
2017-09-15 1:04 GMT+02:00 Niels Christian Hansen <nch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Dear collective wisdom (with apologies for cross-posting),
For a research project at Ohio State University, School of Music,
we are currently assembling a database of musical pieces in which
composers call for one or more instruments to be played
"offstage".
Classic examples from the Western symphonic repertoire include:
(1) the offstage trumpet in Ludwig van Beethoven's Leonore
Overtures Nos. 2 & 3, (2) the offstage oboe in the third movement
("Scène aux champs") from Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique,
and (3) the offstage female choir in "Neptune" from Gustav Holst's
The Planets.
We would be very grateful for your kind help in drawing our
attention to as many other examples as possible that you may be
aware of!
Thanks in advance,
Niels Chr. Hansen & David Huron
Niels Chr. Hansen (PhD, MSc, MMus) | Postdoctoral Fellow in Music
Cognition | Cognitive and Systematic Musicology
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Music<https://music.osu.edu/ [2]> | Ohio State
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