The horn part in Beethoven's 9th symphony 3rd movement.

[Enrique]

The first example I don't know from what part of the symphony it is. Maybe somebody knows.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoZLWaMYaQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1[/youtube]

[Sorrano]

It is from the 3rd movement, I believe close to the forte tutti that climaxes the movement. At the moment I am looking at a piano score and it does not delineate the parts very well. The score does not have measure numbers, either, sorry. (I have another piano reduction, but it does not have measure numbers, either, and my full score is not immediately accessible). I am certain that it occurs right before the tutti towards the end of the movement.

[Peter]

It's bars 80-98 of the 3rd movt - the Adagio section preceeding 'Lo stesso tempo'.

[Enrique]

Oh, I caught it from the bar where the horn plays the very low notes, as everybody would. The notes before those left me thinking, but as the tempo is the same, they had to be from the same section. By the way, the adagio starts at 83.

[Peter]

By the way, the adagio starts at 83.

Quite right, goodness knows why I put 80!

[Sorrano]

Thanks, Enrique, for posting that clip. I did enjoy that.

[Enrique]

Don't mention it, Sorrano. Great to be able to hear the isolated instruments in famous compositions. By the way, if you go the thread "The Petrushka website ..." and click the link to that site, you can pick up any instrument and listen to it (with the Select Instrument button). But in my machine I see the button is disabled. Could you tell me if in yours too?

[Sorrano]

Don't mention it, Sorrano. Great to be able to hear the isolated instruments in famous compositions. By the way, if you go the thread "The Petrushka website ..." and click the link to that site, you can pick up any instrument and listen to it (with the Select Instrument button). But in my machine I see the button is disabled. Could you tell me if in yours too?

I will have to check that out later tonight (there are firewalls in place that will prevent most audio streaming).

[Sorrano]

Don't mention it, Sorrano. Great to be able to hear the isolated instruments in famous compositions. By the way, if you go the thread "The Petrushka website ..." and click the link to that site, you can pick up any instrument and listen to it (with the Select Instrument button). But in my machine I see the button is disabled. Could you tell me if in yours too?

Not all of the scores have this feature; some of them will. You'll have to try different scores to see which features are available. The first score, for example, has the select instrument button disabled throughout.

[Enrique]

You are right. Though I find that selecting an instrument doesn't filter the other instruments out. A bit disconcerting. There was a CD collection from Microsoft. One of these CDs is Multimedia Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring. The box says "An illustrated, Interactive musical exploration". One of its features is a game. It for instance asks some question about the Rite and you have to answer. If you do it well, you accumulate points. Or maybe the game plays some part but only some instruments and you have to say which part, and so on. It's very amusing. When the question is very difficult, I sometimes looked at the score, but that was cheating of course.

[Enrique]

Encuentro algo incomodo the short time, after posting, during which the Edit botton can be used. Other Vbulletin forums set this time to a much longer value or even to permanent use. The thread tittle is misguiding, for there are more than one horn, but I wanted to speak about one part only in the section marked adagio. I recognize there must be some reason for the Edit stuff, which I ignore.

[Lindegard]

Free scores online

Hello, Everyone, are you familiar with http://imslp.org/? There are many Beethoven scores available for free on this site. I followed along with the Diabelli Variations (on the radio, Peter Serkin, pianist) recently thanks to the score's availability for free online. Probably not the best editions, but I am no expert, and am always happy to find free scores that have some credibility. :-)

Still have the paper version of the Third, though, which I bought with my lunch money in the 1960s! :-) Lindegard