Showing posts with label bassoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bassoon. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Little pun with rehearsal letters

Wonder if anyone will appreciate this little pun: in the first movement of my Horn Concerto, the bassoons get cues for the solo horn. However, at rehearsal letter V, I give them a cello cue. Thus, in the bassoon parts, the players will see an enclosed letter V followed by the word "Cello."

After I noticed things had worked out this way, I also noticed I had neglected to give the bassoons a cue after a lengthy rest that ends at letter H. Should I give the bassoons a solo horn cue or a cello cue? For the sake of the pun, I opted to give them a horn cue.