Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Offstage instruments From: Nils Peters <peters.nils@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:13:02 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi Niels, In Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes you should find choir, tuba,=20 and some percussion offstage. cheers, Nils On 2017-09-14 4:04 PM, Niels Christian Hansen wrote: > Dear collective wisdom (with apologies for cross-posting), >=20 > For a research project at Ohio State University, School of Music, we ar= e currently assembling a database of musical pieces in which composers ca= ll for one or more instruments to be played "offstage". >=20 > Classic examples from the Western symphonic repertoire include: (1) the= offstage trumpet in Ludwig van Beethoven's Leonore Overtures Nos. 2 & 3,= (2) the offstage oboe in the third movement ("Sc=C3=A8ne aux champs") fr= om Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, and (3) the offstage female cho= ir in "Neptune" from Gustav Holst's The Planets. >=20 > We would be very grateful for your kind help in drawing our attention t= o as many other examples as possible that you may be aware of! >=20 > Thanks in advance, > Niels Chr. Hansen & David Huron >=20 >=20 >=20 > Niels Chr. Hansen (PhD, MSc, MMus) | Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Cogni= tion | Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory<http://musiccog.ohi= o-state.edu/> | School of Music<https://music.osu.edu/> | Ohio State Univ= ersity<https://www.osu.edu/> | hansen.491@xxxxxxxx<mailto:hansen.491@xxxxxxxx= du> >=20