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Benedict Mason is organizing a unique event where 6 amateur musicians will play hunting horns with a radio click track as part of an outdoor opera festival. He provides the musicians with the music PDF and instructions for memorizing and playing their parts with the click track cues. The musicians will not have sheet music and will need to play from memory while wearing headphones receiving individual cues. Benedict explains the notation, harmonic series, sections of the piece, and rehearsal process led by conductor Clement Power. He is available to answer any questions and thanks the musicians for participating.

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Hunting Horns Notes Trumpets Email

Benedict Mason is organizing a unique event where 6 amateur musicians will play hunting horns with a radio click track as part of an outdoor opera festival. He provides the musicians with the music PDF and instructions for memorizing and playing their parts with the click track cues. The musicians will not have sheet music and will need to play from memory while wearing headphones receiving individual cues. Benedict explains the notation, harmonic series, sections of the piece, and rehearsal process led by conductor Clement Power. He is available to answer any questions and thanks the musicians for participating.

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Trento

Subject: Trento
From: Benedict Mason <[email protected]>
Date: 26/08/2019 11:00
To: [email protected], Demetrio Bonvecchio <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], Sebastiano Gottardi <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Daniele Grott
Demetrio Bonvecchio
Isabella Fia
Michelle Zappini
Sebastiano Gottardi
Verena Menardi

Dear Daniele, Demetrio, Isabella, Michelle, Sebastiano and Verena

Thank you for agreeing to play Hunting horn with radio click track! I think you will have a very interesting experience! This will
be a unique event!

I passed on your contact details to the festival. I assume they have been in touch with you by now. And discussed how to get
your hunting horn instrument.

I would like to send you here:

A PDF of the music. Also the score introduction, which tells you about the piece.

And also some specific notes, in the body of this email, as follows:

I am sending you one of the six hunting horn sextets. All 36 parts are equally important, so Hunting horn 36 is just as
important as Hunting horn 1.

I don't mind which of you will play which part, but obviously only one person should play on each part. It is important to have
all equally balanced players.

You are are 4 trumpets and one trombone and tuba. Although the last two parts of the sextet are easier, they are also lower.
But of course you can choose a higher trumpet part, as you wish.

Demetrio: I suggest you choose, and let me know. I will have the part immediately written out in Eb at non transposed
sounding pitches with bass and alto clefs for trombone!

Roberto. Do you want to play a hunting horn?!! If not, there are 24 Tuba parts and you could join with one of these. Otherwise
I can also have your hunting horn part written out in Eb sounding non-transposed.

Lastly does anyone know Luca Pezzedi? I can't reach him - I have tried many times. It would be great if he would like to play.

___________

Here is an explanation for the harmonic series and the notation. The hunting horn is pitched in Eb sounding. The parts are
notated transposed into C. This is how hunting horn players read their music - written a major 6th higher than sounding. You
could imagine that you are playing on an open C trumpet and the harmonic series is the same as written, but the sound you
make on the hunting horn is an octave and major 6th lower:

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In the piece, there are 23 sections lasting each 1--2 minutes. The Hunting horns do not play in every section. Mostly they play
a single entry in any one section.

However, 17 is fast and difficult(!) - and 22 is difficult until you have a horn to practise on!

I suggest you practise/pretend on a trumpet until you have your horn, so you can already familiarise yourself with the music.

MEMORISATION
There are no sheet music parts, and you learn the piece from the attached PDF score. This means that you must play your part
from memory. This is fully an opera, played in the open air, and there are no music stands. Nor is it possible to use music
holders attached to your instrument. You are just as much protagonists (actors) in the drama. You are just as much important
as the soloists!

However to help the memory you are cued when to play, and mostly the music is easy to memorise.

You wear a little receiver and headphones, and are cued via a click sent by radio. Every Hunting horn player is on a separate
individual click frequency! So your individual contribution is very important to the whole overall picture!

On the top stave you will find general information about playing (dynamics, tempo and general instructions).

The CLICK TRACK is also written out on the top stave of the music:
- You always get one bar in, of click - sometimes 2 bars in, when it is in 2 and faster.
- There are spoken words as well: 'play' on the first note played, tells you always where you are.

- Section numbers (the large boxes, top left) are announced on the click, so you always know which section you are on.
- Spoken 'Standby' warns you when you are about to have to play a cue.

The click stops when you play only a single note, but goes on when you have more to play.
There is a male voice 'and' 'stop', to warn you when you are about to stop playing.

You hear a strong differentiation between downbeats and upbeats on the click.

A pause sign in the music means you don't start at the beginning of the section. You wait (silence on click track) until your
spoken 'standby', then the click brings you in.

The tempo is in the box at the top, and the click beat subdivision is in quarter notes (the note duration symbol at the right
side of the box) - except in sections 17, and 19, when it is in half notes.

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A click MP3 will be sent in a little while, but all the tempo indications are indicated in the music, and already it can be learnt
already like normal traditional music. The click simply functions like a metronome.

This mail has been copied to the wonderful conductor Clement Power, who will take care of rehearsing you all, in the 10 days
before the performances

If you have any questions that you cannot answer, then please write to me. You are very welcome!

Many many thanks and I am really delighted to be working with you!

Benedict

Attachments:

Hunting Horns 25-30.pdf 525 kB

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