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An offstage instrument or choir part in classical music is a sound effect used in orchestral and opera which is created by having one or more instrumentalists (trumpet players, also called an "offstage trumpet call", horn players, woodwind players, percussionists, other instrumentalists) from a symphony orchestra or opera orchestra play a note, melody, or rhythm from behind the stage, or ...
The main motif of the music follows a chromatic descent from both the melodic and accompanying lines. The treble line (resembling a "pedal point", unusually in the upper voice), constantly goes down chromatically for the entire piece, excluding the climax and measures 9 and 12. The 8th note ostinato in the bass begins on an inverted E minor ...
3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), piccolo, alto flute, 4 oboes (one doubling English horn), English horn, 3 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), D clarinet (doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 4 bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), contrabassoon, 8 horns (2 doubling tenor tuba), 4 trumpets (1 doubling bass trumpet), piccolo trumpet, 3 ...
The Undivine Comedy, an opera in 17 scenes (1985–88/89), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, 2 baritones, 2 flutes (one doubling on piccolo, the other on alto flute), 2 oboes (one doubling on cor anglais), clarinet (doubling on E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet), 2 percussionists, electric organ (doubling on celesta), violin, viola, and cello ...
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet is a solo instrumental work by Igor Stravinsky. The work was composed in 1918. [ 1 ] It was published in 1919, shortly after the completion of his Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat , as a thank-you gift to the philanthropist and arts patron Werner Reinhart , who was also an amateur clarinetist. [ 2 ]
A clarinet quintet is a work for one clarinet and a string quartet. Although originally written for basset clarinet, [1] in contemporary performances it usually is played on a clarinet in A. It is Mozart's only completed clarinet quintet and is one of the earliest and best-known works, written especially for the instrument.
The ii 7 –V 7 –I maj7 progression provides smooth voice leading between the thirds and sevenths of these chords; the third of one chord becomes the seventh of the next chord, and the seventh of one chord moves down a half-step to become the third of the next chord.
Scriabin himself called this set of pitches, voiced as the simultaneity (in ascending order) C F ♯ B ♭ E A D the "mystic chord". Others have referred to it as the "Promethean chord". It may be thought of as C Lydian-Mixolydian. It can also be though as a triad pair: a minor triad and an augmented triad 1/2 step up.