Score Order?
I've been reading up on Bret Newton's writings on Bandestration and they have inspired me to attempt to write something with an expanded band roughly of his specification. I have the score order for woodwinds down, but how would you arrange this brass section? It's ordered by family right now.
Horn in F
Wagner Tuba in Bb
Wagner Tuba in F
Eb Cornet
Bb Cornet
Alto Horn
Baritone Horn
Piccolo Trumpet
Eb Trumpet
Bb Trumpet
Alto Trumpet
Bass Trumpet
Cimbasso
Alto Trombone
Tenor Trombone
Bass Trombone
Contrabass Trombone
Flugelhorn
Euphonium
Bass Tuba
Contrabass Tuba
Also, how is Percussion ordered? Thanks
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Instrument types are always listed from highest pitch to lowest pitch.
In the brass section I normally see
Horns
Trumpet
Cornets
Trombones
Tubas (including baritones and euphoniums)
I'm not sure if the flugelhorns belong before or after the cornets, I would choose before.
I've seen the Wagner tubas listed with the horns and with the tubas, though I would list them with the Horns myself. Their mouth pieces are similar to horns' and Wagner seemed to expect horn players to play the Wagner tubas from looking at his scores.
Percussion is generally in the order
Timpani
unpitched
other pitched (Glock, marimba, xylophone...)
The unpitched percussion, from the best I can tell, is ordered by who is going to play it since percussionists often play multiple instruments and even have several instruments printed on a single part. I've never seen a consistent order for percussion outside of the very brief outline above.
I haven't looked on line for any standard, you may want to do that.
In reply to Instrument types are always… by mike320
Thanks for the answer. I've heard some people put Flugelhorn after Cornet and Trumpet. Would I order the instruments by family? Or would an Alto Trombone go above a Bass Trumpet?
Also, how would you classify a Cimbasso? I think it technically belongs to the Trumpet family, but it seems to generally be viewed as a valve Contrabass Trombone.
The Alto and Baritone Horn belongs to the Cornet family from what I've heard, and don't have the roundness of the similarly pitched Euphonium.
In reply to Thanks for the answer. I've… by SansLeSkelepun
So, thinking through this and filtering by pitch a bit, would it be:
Horn in F
Wagner Tuba in Bb
Wagner Tuba in F
Picc Trumpet
Eb Cornet
Eb Trumpet
Bb Cornet
Bb Trumpet
Flugelhorn
Alto Trumpet
Alto Trombone
Alto Horn
Mellophone (I include this now as it's the closest thing to an Alto Tuba there is and I think it would work well in a concert band, despite being the marching equivalent to the Horn in F)
Bass Trumpet
Baritone Horn
Tenor Trombone
Bass Trombone
Cimbasso
Contrabass Trombone
Euphonium/Tenor Tuba
Bass Tuba
Contrabass Tuba
In reply to Thanks for the answer. I've… by SansLeSkelepun
Put all of the horns together from smallest to largest, then trumpets from smallest to largest and so on. I've never heard of a Cimbasso. From what I read about it, it should be included as the lowest pitched trombone.