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Q: What is the highest note (in horn pitch) in the 1st horn part of Haydn's Symphony #31, the "Horn Signal"?

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Q: What is the lowest note (in horn pitch) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5?

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Q: What is the highest note (in horn pitch) in the Symphonia Domestica by Richard Strauss?

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Instrumentation

Q: What is the complete instrumentation for the Schubert Octet in F Major, op. 166?

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Q: What is the complete instrumentation for Hector Berlioz' Le Jeune Patré Breton?

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Q: What piece by Mozart calls for eight horns?

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Q: What is the instrumentation for Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser ?

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Q: The German Romantic composer Carl Reinecke wrote two different trios for horn, piano, and one other instrument. Name the two other instruments Reinecke used.

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Q: What is the complete instrumentation for Benjamin Britten's Op.55, Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain?

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Q: For what type of instrumental ensemble did Gyorgy Ligeti write the Six Bagatelles?

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Q: What is the instrumentation of the Divertimento a tré by F.J. Haydn?

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Q: What is the instrumentation for Mladi (trans: Youth) by Leos Janacek?

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Q: What is the instrumentation for Jan Bach's Four Two-bit Contraptions?

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Q: What is the instrumentation for Twilight Music by John Harbison?

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Q: What is the instrumentation for David Amram's Three Songs for Marlboro?

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Q: How many horn parts are there in the Octet by Stravinsky?

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Q: In the Symphony in d minor by C. Franck, what instrument plays in unison with the horn for an extended solo in the slow movement?

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Q: How many horn parts are there in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf?

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Q: Which horn part is the first to play in Wagner's Das Rheingold?

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Q: Name the seven wind instruments in the Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Strings, and Timpani by Swiss composer Frank Martin.

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Q. Name at least four orchestral works (not including ballet or opera) that call for two or more Wagner Tubas.

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Q: Name at least six orchestral works (not including ballet or opera) that call for six (no more or less) horns.

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Q: Name three orchestral pieces from the Romantic Period that start out with one or more horns playing all alone. Inner movements of larger works do not count - it must be the very first note of the piece, with no other instruments than horn(s).

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Q. How many horns are in Mozart's Requiem?

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A. Cl, Hn, Bsn, 2Vn, Va, Vc, DB

 

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A. Soprano, Hn, Pno.

 

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A. Serenade No. 8, K.286 (269A), D Major ("Notturno"), written for four orchestras, each consisting of two horns and strings.

 

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A. Clarinet

 

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A. Three

 

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A. Eighth horn.

 

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A. Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone

 

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A. There are quite a few possible answers. Remember "not including ballet or opera."

1. Bruckner - Symphony #7 (4)

2. Bruckner - Symphony #8 (4)

3. Bruckner - Symphony #9 (4)

4. Janacek - Sinfonietta (2) (actually written for 2 tenor horns - like a euphonium - but often played on Wagner Tubas)

5. Christopher Rouse - Symphony #1 (4)

6. Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (4)

7. Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensymphonie (4)

8. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (2) (doesn't really count - it's a ballet!)

9. Edgard Varese - Arcana (2)

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A. First of all, Mahler's 5th Symphony doesn't count, since it has six horns, plus one obbligato horn part. But here is a list of other orchestral works that do call for six horns.

Arnold Bax -  Symphony No. 4
Alban Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra
Berlioz - Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale, op. 15
York Bowen - Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
B. Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem, op. 20 (not the War Requiem, op. 66, which calls for 7 horns)
Earle Brown - Available Forms 2 (also calls for 2 conductors!)
Aaron Copland - Connotations
John Corigliano - Symphony No. 1
C. Debussy - Martyrdom of St. Sebastien
Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair
          "         Dance Rhapsody No. 1
          "          Paris (The Song of a Great City)
          "          Sea Drift
Ernst von Dohnányi - Symphony No. 1 in D minor, op 9
Henry Kimball Hadley - The Ocean, op. 99 (horns 5 & 6 optional)
Roy Harris - Symphony #7
          "          Symphony #9
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Jacques Ibert - Le Chevalier Errant
Gyorgi Ligeti - Apparitions
          "          Atmospheres
Luigi Nono - Il Canto Sospeso
Carl Orff - Trionfo di Afrodite
K. Penderecki - Flourescences
          "          Passion According to St. Luke
          "          Sonata, Cello and Orchestra
Hans Pfitzner - Palestrina: Three Preludes
Rachmaninoff - The Bells
          "          Die Toteninsel
Rimsky-Korsakov - Mlada: Suite
Carl Ruggles - Sun-Treader
Giacinto Scelsi - Aion
          "          Hymnos
Arnold Schoenberg - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (Original Version)
William Schuman - Credendum
          "          Symphony #8
Robert Schumann - Konzertstück for four horns (also has two tutti horns)
Richard Strauss - Don Quixote
          "          Also Sprach Zarathustra
Igor Stravinsky - Fireworks
Karol Szymanowski - Konzert-Overture, op. 12
Michael Tippet - The Rose Lake
Anton Webern - Im Sommerwind
Graham Whettam - Sinfonia Intrepida
Richard Yardumian - Armenian Suite

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A. None.

 

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A. Pedal E

 

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A. High C sharp

 

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A. E above high C

 

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A. There are quite a few possible answers.

Brahms - Piano Concerto #2 in B flat
Dvorak - Scherzo Capriccioso
Franck - Le Chausseur Maudit
Humperdinck - Overture to Hänsel und Gretel
Mahler - Symphony No. 3 and
Das Lied von der Erde
Schubert - Symphony No. 9 in C Major, "The Great"
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
C.M. Weber - Overture to Oberon

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A. Woodwind quintet. (flute doubles on piccolo)

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A. Clarinet and Oboe

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A. Tenor, Horn, Piano.

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A. Woodwind Quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon)

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A. Horn, violin and cello.

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A. Woodwind Quintet plus Bass Clarinet (six players).

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A. Horn and flute.

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A. Violin, Horn and Piano.

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A. Horn and cello.

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A. None.

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