Timeline for Is it common in modern classical music for timpani to play chromatic passages?
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| Sep 26 at 15:08 | comment | added | phoog | @supercat sure, though I've never seen that for timpani. I've certainly seen it on occasion for other instruments, though, and there's a lot of timpani music I've never seen. It would also be unsurprising for a composer to give alternate parts depending on the hardware available, in particular the number of drums. | |
| Sep 25 at 20:44 | comment | added | supercat | Would it sometimes be reasonable for a composer to notate multiple alternative parts for players with varying degrees of skill, on the basis that a sufficiently skilled player might be able to produce better music given a complex part than given a simple one, but a less skilled player given a simple part they can perform well would produce better music than given a complex one they would perform badly? | |
| Sep 25 at 10:57 | vote | accept | brilliant | ||
| Sep 25 at 10:35 | history | edited | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25 at 10:28 | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |