You can drag the 'to cor anglais' text anywhere you like in the Part, EXCEPT across a page break. Or, if this causes problems, just hide it in the part and replace it with a suitable Staff Text object. It doesn't do anything, other than inform the player.
But remember, he expects and deserves to be warned of the change straight after he plays the last note on the old instrument. Not where it looks pretty on the score.
>>But remember, he expects and deserves to be warned of the change straight after he plays the last note on the old instrument. [bold mine]
I don't like to reflexively nitpick at the minutiae around this kind of issue, but sometimes it is clearly careless. The OP did not identify the gender of the player, and there are indeed female oboe/cor anglais players (Principal Oboe in the Sydney Symphony, my home town, is the great Diana Doherty). More are coming through the ranks I'm sure. It's easy to write "he or she" or "s/he" and it is unnecessarily (though I'm sure completely unintentionally) offensive not to. With all due respect to Laurence, a great stalwart here, and sorry to be OT.
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In the Mancini book "Sounds and Scores", I seem to remember numerous references to the player as "he". But then, it is fairly recent that mixed gender has become commonplace in most or all bands.
> >>But remember, he expects and deserves to be warned of the change straight after he plays the last note on the old instrument. [bold mine]
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> I don't like to reflexively nitpick at the minutiae around this kind of issue, but sometimes it is clearly careless. The OP did not identify the gender of the player, and there are indeed female oboe/cor anglais players (Principal Oboe in the Sydney Symphony, my home town, is the great Diana Doherty). More are coming through the ranks I'm sure. It's easy to write "he or she" or "s/he" and it is unnecessarily (though I'm sure completely unintentionally) offensive not to. With all due respect to Laurence, a great stalwart here, and sorry to be OT.
Hi Mark,
Well the guitarist is definitely a male (I could tell straight away even though he has only made one rehearsal), and my name is not Pauline or Paula!
I heard, a couple of years ago that the Bible was going to be re-written adhering to the 'political correctness' stance of making available a version where 'she' replaces 'he'. Effectively this would make God and Jesus female!
Also, and I do consider this all to border on silliness at times, if people are going to argue about the correct application of 'she' and 'he', then (in our current society) we should equally incorporate 'transgener' and/or 'transexual' beings.
I don't mean for this to come across as sounding harsh; I am just making a point.
I recognise the extremes of the debate. I don't think it is extreme to say "he or she" if you are speaking in the abstract about a generic instrumentalist. This comes from the desire to be an ACCURATE person (I am a composer after all; I care about taxonomy) rather than anything ideological. Also, it is *welcoming* that way to (virtually) all comers.
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> I recognise the extremes of the debate. I don't think it is extreme to say "he or she" if you are speaking in the abstract about a generic instrumentalist. This comes from the desire to be an ACCURATE person (I am a composer after all; I care about taxonomy) rather than anything ideological. Also, it is *welcoming* that way to (virtually) all comers.
Hi Mark,
I am not sure how 'composing' correlates to 'taxonomy' but I am sure you are correct in your analysis as it relates to yourself.
>> I am not sure how 'composing' correlates to 'taxonomy'
Taxonomy is the art of using correct terminology and classification. I find writers of music are often very concerned with this, sometimes right down to minutiae. I know I am.
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> Taxonomy is the art of using correct terminology and classification. I find writers of music are often very concerned with this, sometimes right down to minutiae. I know I am.
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... and the rest, as they say, is down to interpretation! ;-)
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> >> I am not sure how 'composing' correlates to 'taxonomy'
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> Taxonomy is the art of using correct terminology and classification. I find writers of music are often very concerned with this, sometimes right down to minutiae. I know I am.
I have only ever heard the term used within conversations relating to science/biology (not that I know much about these!); but I suppose it can have wider uses as in different fields.
Yes, an excellent and formidable German music editor Alexander Plötz whom I worked with on a couple of my orchestral scores (and who sometimes posts here) used the term "taxonomy" regularly in relation to many questions of music notation that came up in our conversations. The term definitely has a broad application and is not confined to science by any means, but can be applicable to any field or general question of terminology and classification.
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