More templates for chamber orchestra?

• Dec 1, 2014 - 10:11

MuseScore 2.0 beta 1 had no templates for chamber orchestra but we just added a String Quartet template.

I see that other products provides templates for

  • String trio (the violon, viola, cello one)
  • Woodwind quartet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon)
  • quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, F horn, bassoon)

And more sax quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, baryton) in particular.

Any thought on adding these templates? Is there any reference book or webpage we should look for the most common orchestration in the literature and in practice today?


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hi lasconic

I just went on imslp (it is the best source for public domain sheet music , that might be a good starting point) and found on that page http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Instrument_Composition_Lists and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_music#Ensembles

On wikipedia you have a lot of possibilities, maybe all won't fit to a lot of user (you know 20% of them should fit 80% of users....)

and http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Instrument_Composition_Lists :
Pages dans la catégorie « Instrument Composition Lists »
Cette catégorie contient 16 pages, dont les 16 ci-dessous.
M
List of Compositions for Mixed Chamber Ensemble
P
List of Compositions for Piano Quartet
List of Compositions for Piano Quintet
List of Compositions for Piano Trio
S
List of Compositions for String Duo
List of Compositions for String Octet
List of Compositions for String Quartet
List of Compositions for String Quintet
List of Compositions for String Sextet
List of Compositions for String Trio
W
List of Compositions for Wind Duo
List of Compositions for Wind Quintet
List of Compositions for Wind Sextet
List of Compositions for Wind Trio
List of Compositions for Winds and Piano
List of Compositions for Woodwind Quintet

and if you click on one of them , for example Piano trio , you have sheet music divided into categories with instrumentation
1 Violin, Continuo
2 Violin, Violoncello, Piano
2.1 Classical Period
2.2 Romantic Period
2.3 Modern Period
3 Violin, Viola, Piano
4 Piano and Winds
4.1 Piano, Clarinet, Violoncello
4.2 Piano, Flute, Bassoon
5 Piano Trio (Vln, Vc, Pno) plus Voice

Hope that can help ;)

PS : on both pages, I don't see 4 hand piano (or keybord , harpsichord)... that should be one of the first use of chamber music.... with generally one 2-hand (left player) on the left page and the other on the right page ... I know that should be really hard to take into account in musescore....
and I also saw with two piano staves (with a bracket) one under the other

String quartet is definitely a universal standard. Saxophone quartet is pretty standard too. Wind quintet (often referred to in my experience as a "woodwind quintet" despite the horn) is also very familiar to me, because I used to play clarinet. I know the "piano quintet" - string quartet plus piano - is pretty standard too, and I guess I actually play in one of those too although we don't play the standard literature. In the brass world, I know there is a fairly standard brass quintet and common but perhaps less standard larger brass choir.

A possible resource for more information would be any of various "chamber music societies" around the world.

For 2.0.1, I added a new Chamber Music category with :
- the string quarter, formerly in the orchestral section
- a saxophone quartet (SATB)
- a wind quartet
- a wind quintet
- a brass quartet
- a brass quintet

Most of these ensemble have an existing repertoire, sometimes a full wikipedia article, and have a template in one or more other notation software.

In reply to by [DELETED] 5

A few other common Classical ensembles are the piano quintet (string quartet with piano), piano trio (piano with violin and cello), and string trio (usually violin, viola and cello). At least a piano quintet template would be very useful. You could derive the other two (and others besides) from the piano quintet, but it would involve renaming the violin part (which is no longer "first" in the smaller ensembles).

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