Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Offstage instruments From: Jonathan Berger <brg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:16:31 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>and on a very different note - Turandot which has saxophone and organ=20 backstage - an amazing timbre effect. - jonathan --- Jonathan Berger The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University http://jonathanberger.net On 2017-09-15 11:06, Pierre Divenyi wrote: > I would definitely add John Cage's_ __4'33" ._ >=20 > Pierre Divenyi >=20 > On 9/15/17 1:02 AM, Victor Rosi wrote: >=20 >> 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) >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> I hope I helped, i'll try to find other examples. >>=20 >> Good luck and keep us updated ! >>=20 >> Victor ROSI >>=20 >> 2017-09-15 1:04 GMT+02:00 Niels Christian Hansen <nch@xxxxxxxx>: >>=20 >>> Dear collective wisdom (with apologies for cross-posting), >>>=20 >>> 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". >>>=20 >>> 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 >>> ("Sc=C3=A8ne aux champs") from Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, >>> and (3) the offstage female choir in "Neptune" from Gustav Holst's >>> The Planets. >>>=20 >>> 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! >>>=20 >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Niels Chr. Hansen & David Huron >>>=20 >>> Niels Chr. Hansen (PhD, MSc, MMus) | Postdoctoral Fellow in Music >>> Cognition | Cognitive and Systematic Musicology >>> Laboratory<http://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/ [1]> | School of >>> Music<https://music.osu.edu/ [2]> | Ohio State >>> University<https://www.osu.edu/ [3]> | >>> hansen.491@xxxxxxxx<mailto:hansen.491@xxxxxxxx> >=20 >=20 >=20 > Links: > ------ > [1] http://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/ > [2] https://music.osu.edu/ > [3] https://www.osu.edu/