Ambitus Question

[Anders Hedelin]

BTW if anyone is remotely interested, a recording of Part 3 of the piece in the scan can be heard at the top left of my Sound page

Thanks for sharing!

[David Ward]

As an experiment, for fun at least, I'm trying an ambitus on the front cover of some songs (the ones whose font size was discussed at viewtopic.php?f=2&t=762 ).

I'm not sure whether or not this is a good idea, but is there any valid reason why I should not do it?

[Anders Hedelin]

What I'm used to seeing on the title page is an instruction like "...for Soprano" or "...for Mezzo". When it says only "...for Voice", the notated ambitus seems quite logical.

[benwiggy]

Very nice! I like it.

[Schonbergian]

The International Music Company editions of Fauré, Duparc, etc. mélodies provide a small ambitus below the header and above the first stave of music, which I think is less obtrusive for "individual" compositions or those not in a choral context.

[David Ward]

BTW if anyone is remotely interested, a recording of Part 3 of the piece in the scan can be heard at the top left of my Sound page

Thanks for sharing!

You are welcome. This has inspired me to tinker further (and very inexpertly) with the web-page and to add this information about the subject of the piece, which I hope may be of interest (at least to people who live in higher latitudes - at the time of writing the piece I lived at 60º 40 N - or who have connections with the sea).

The Gloup disaster of July 1881 claimed the lives of fifty-eight men when a sudden storm rose out of a peaceful sky. This was a blow from which the community of Gloup, Yell, Shetland never recovered. In 1881 the shores of the sea inlet Gloup Voe were well inhabited on both sides. In 1989 when Beyond the Far Haaf was written there were only four households, all on the east side of the voe. While he was writing the piece, DW lived eight miles from Gloup and his nearest neighbours were descended from families involved in the disaster.