Johnno: Created page with "The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score Score extension] handles snippets of music notation using [http://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/index.html Lilypond]. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of ''Eine Alpensinfonie'' by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for: \relative c, { \time 4/4 \clef bass \key c \major r2 r4\ff g\tenuto c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto c..."

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Created page with "The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score Score extension] handles snippets of music notation using [http://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/index.html Lilypond]. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of ''Eine Alpensinfonie'' by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for: <score> \relative c, { \time 4/4 \clef bass \key c \major r2 r4\ff g\tenuto c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto c..."

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The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score Score extension] handles snippets of music notation using [http://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/index.html Lilypond]. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of ''Eine Alpensinfonie'' by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for:

<score>
\relative c, {
\time 4/4
\clef bass
\key c \major
r2 r4\ff g\tenuto
c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto
g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto
c1
e2~ e4.. b16
a1
g1
c8 r8 r4 r2
\bar "|."
}
</score>

You can hear (but not see!) it being played in this performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. I mean, I love how they at least bothered to point the camera at the trombone section, but the only time the 4th trombonist is playing his contrabass (you can see his bass sitting on its stand), and he's not in shot: https://youtu.be/xK7z2NhUrsQ

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