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RE: Sound stage

Posted by Norman M on March 31, 2016 at 08:57:40

In Reply to: RE: Sound stage posted by russ69 on March 30, 2016 at 19:46:03:

The listener needn't forsake classical concert hall "captured inside a box" to hear sound arising from *outside or in the next room* (quoting myself here*). There is an abundance of classical music compositions which call for offstage sound contributions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offstage_brass_and_percussion

(quoting from the Wiki page):

"List of pieces that call for offstage instruments
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3 - 1 trumpet
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique - 1 oboe in the third movement.
Grand messe des morts (Requiem) - 4 brass bands, placed north, south, east and west of the audience
Havergal Brian
Symphony No. 1 (The Gothic) - Four groups, each containing 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 tubas and 1 set of timpani
Benjamin Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - the solo horn in the Epilogue
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 - 3 trumpets
Symphony No. 2 - 4 trumpets, 4-6 horns, bass drum with cymbals attached, triangle and timpani
Symphony No. 3 - Snare drums and posthorn
Symphony No. 6 - Cowbells and deep tubular bells
Symphony No. 7 - Cowbells
Symphony No. 8 - 4 trumpets and 3 trombones
Krzysztof Penderecki
Seven Gates of Jerusalem - 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, 1 tuba
Sergei Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kijé Suite - 1 cornet
Ottorino Respighi
Feste Romane - 3 Buccine (3 soprano)
Pines of Rome - 6 Buccine (2 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass) and 1 trumpet
Church Windows - trumpet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture - 4 horns, 3 trumpets and 3 trombones
Song of the Forests - 6 trumpets and 6 trombones
Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie - 12 horns, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones
Ein Heldenleben - 3 trumpets
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture - "Open" instrumentation consisting of "any extra brass instruments" available.
Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem - 4 trumpets
Luisa Miller - 4 horns
William Walton
Belshazza"

Whether seated in the concert hall 'box' or listening to recorded music at home, those offstage instuments sound like they are outside or in the next room because they are indeed there! (And moreover, easily distinguished from all the in the box sound.)

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