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MalinTrumpet · 05-17-2005, 06:38 PM

Hi Manny:

Here's a question I've always wanted to ask but forgot to when the moment arrived:

When playing Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven etc. when both trumpet parts are written as unisons, when is it proper to have the second player play an octave below? I just played on Eroica last Sunday and as usual played most of my part down an octave. Some of the part sounded better in unison. Do you have any hard and fast rules about this? Have any conductors asked you and your 2nd trumpet to play in unison (as the part is written)? What do you think the composers had in mind when they wrote the parts as they did?

Larry Malin

05-17-2005, 06:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
MalinTrumpet Pianissimo User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 71	Unisons in classical and early romantic literature Hi Manny: Here's a question I've always wanted to ask but forgot to when the moment arrived: When playing Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven etc. when both trumpet parts are written as unisons, when is it proper to have the second player play an octave below? I just played on Eroica last Sunday and as usual played most of my part down an octave. Some of the part sounded better in unison. Do you have any hard and fast rules about this? Have any conductors asked you and your 2nd trumpet to play in unison (as the part is written)? What do you think the composers had in mind when they wrote the parts as they did? Larry Malin