Creating orchestral percussion
Hi team,
I'm trying to set up a percussion score for the European Doctors Orchestra. We'll be performing a brand new piece by Elena Kats-Chernin who has been commissioned to compose the piece for our 20th anniversary concert in November.
The percussion is quite complex and is scored for 4 percussionists (timpani plus percussion 1, 2 and 3). Percussion 1, 2 and 3 are playing a variety of instruments including glockenspiel and pebbles for perc 1, 2 wood blocks at different pitches for perc 2, and the more normal unpitched percussion for perc 3. The score also includes "pots and pans"!
I need to be able to write the score as timps, perc 1, perc 2 and perc 3, but also to be able to pitch the instruments as needed in perc 2. How can I achieve this? Wood block doesn't appear on the pitched percussion list when setting up the score.
Looking forward to getting some help on this!
Many thanks!
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| Kats-Chernin-Collective_Heart-Percussion_1-120084.pdf | 137.02 KB |
| Kats-Chernin-Collective_Heart-Percussion_2-120084.pdf | 136.48 KB |
| Kats-Chernin-Collective_Heart-Percussion_3-120084.pdf | 132.94 KB |
Comments
You can just type "wood blocks" and select them from within the "Change Instrument" text function. The clef will change to "unpitched" but you still get a high & low sound from the blocks. "Pitched" in this context really just means absolute (C#, E, Bb, etc.) rather than relative (high, medium, low).