Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Offstage instruments From: =?UTF-8?B?UGF3ZcWCIEt1xZttaWVyZWs=?= <pawel.kusmierek@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:27:24 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--94eb2c06b77c5633c8055a0a3b6a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Has anyone mentioned the 1812 Overture? Technically, cannons shouldn't be on stage ;-) Pawel On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Niels Christian Hansen <nch@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ("Sc=C3=A8ne aux champs") fro= m > 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 Laboratory< > http://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/> | School of Music<https://music.osu.edu/= > > | Ohio State University<https://www.osu.edu/> | hansen.491@xxxxxxxx<mailto= : > hansen.491@xxxxxxxx> > --94eb2c06b77c5633c8055a0a3b6a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Has anyone mentioned the 1812 Overture? Technically, = cannons shouldn't be on stage ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Pawel</div><= /div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep = 14, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Niels Christian Hansen <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href= =3D"mailto:nch@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">nch@xxxxxxxx</a>></sp= an> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;= border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear collective wisdom (with a= pologies for cross-posting),<br> <br> For a research project at Ohio State University, School of Music, we are cu= rrently assembling a database of musical pieces in which composers call for= one or more instruments to be played "offstage".<br> <br> Classic examples from the Western symphonic repertoire include: (1) the off= stage 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 offstag= e female choir in "Neptune" from Gustav Holst's The Planets.<= br> <br> 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!<br> <br> Thanks in advance,<br> Niels Chr. Hansen & David Huron<br> <br> <br> <br> Niels Chr. Hansen (PhD, MSc, MMus) | Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Cognition= | Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory<<a href=3D"http://musi= ccog.ohio-state.edu/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">http://musiccog.= <wbr>ohio-state.edu/</a>> | School of Music<<a href=3D"https://music.= osu.edu/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">https://music.osu.edu/</a>&g= t; | Ohio State University<<a href=3D"https://www.osu.edu/" target=3D"_b= lank" rel=3D"noreferrer">https://www.osu.<wbr>edu/</a>> | <a href=3D"mai= lto:hansen.491@xxxxxxxx">hansen.491@xxxxxxxx</a><mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:= hansen.491@xxxxxxxx">hans<wbr>en.491@xxxxxxxx</a>><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> --94eb2c06b77c5633c8055a0a3b6a--