SUBJECT 6 | Practicalities
Study on Alternating Sections
Compositional Info
Composer: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Opus: Op.74
Key: B minor
Movements/Sections: 4 movements:
Adagio—Allegro non troppo (B minor, 354 bars)
Allegro con grazia (D major, 179 bars)
Allegro molto vivace (G major, 547 bars)
Adagio lamentoso (B minor, 171 bars)
Year of Composition: 1893
Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.6%2C_Op.74_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr)
About the piece see page 49
Orchestra Info
3 flutes (3rd doubling on piccolo)
2 oboes
2 clarinets
2 bassoons
4 horns
2 trumpets
3 trombones
tuba
timpani
cymbals
bass drum
tam-tam
strings
Recording Session Info
The recording period consisted of one set-up and measurements day on Saturday September 29, 2018, and one recording day, an orchestra rehearsal session on Sunday September 30, 10 AM - 12:00 PM, followed by some time for listening , as well as time for acoustic measurements
Timeline :
Friday Sept. 14th, 2018, 9:00-11:00: ODESSA team meeting
Monday Sept. 17th, 2018, 10:30-12:00: Martha’s team attends the 2e half of rehearsal
Friday Sept. 28th , 2018, 9:00- 9:45: Malte, Julien and Martha meet at CIRMMT to view equipment
Friday Sept. 28th , 2018, 10:30-12:30: Martha, Malte and Stefanos attend the rehearsal at the Hall
Friday Sept. 28th , 2018, 14:30: load in at McGill
Friday Sept. 28th , 2018, 15:30: Delivery at Salle Claude Champagne
Friday Sept 28th , 2018, 16:00 -17:30: storing of recording and acoustic equipment
Saturday Sept. 29th, 2018, 9:00-17:00: Set-up of recording equipment (no orchestra)
Saturday Sept. 29th, 2018, 17:00-19:00": Sound-check with Brass quintet (Charles-Antoine Solis)
Saturday Sept. 29th, 2018, 19:00-22:00: Acoustic measurement with Malte Kob SILENT HALL please
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 8:00-10:00 : Audio team on stage fine-tuning microphone positions, and ready to adjust as musicians gradually arrive
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 9:45-10:00: Warming up (the rehearsal starts at 10:00)
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 10:00-12:30: Recording session with the whole orchestra
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 12:30-13:30: Opportunities for Listening in control room
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 13:30-15:30: Acoustic measurements, Malte Kob and his team SILENT HALL pls
Sunday Sept. 30th, 2018, 15:30-18:00: Take-down of equipment (2 ½)
Fall 2018 - Winter 2019: Postproduction
early Spring 2019 Upload of tracks and materials for evaluation
ODESSA Team Members
Researchers :
- Martha de Francisco, McGill University (sound recording - Tonmeister)
- Jean-François Rivest, University of Montréal (conductor)
- Caroline Traube, University of Montréal (musical acoustics and psychoacoustics)
- Malte Kob, Detmold University of Music (hall acoustics)
- Stephen McAdams, McGill University (music cognition) Director the ACTOR project
Supporting staff and research assistants :
At University of Montréal :
- Kevin Gironnay, technical director,
- Onil Brousseau, event/production coordinator of the Salle Claude-Champagne
- Sébastien Besson, régisseur de la Salle Claude-Champagne
- Raphaël Néron-Baribeau, CFI project manager @ UdeM
- Jean-Michel Dumas, secteur multimedia
- A team of research assistants from the programme “Mediation de la musique” @ UdeM for the video documentation
At McGill University :
- Jack Kelly, Doctoral student in sound recording - teaching video production
- Diego Quiroz Orozco, Doctoral student in sound recording
- Ricardo Morejón, Master student sound recording
- Hyunjoung Yang, Master student sound recording
- Noëlle Byer, Master student sound recording
Kit Soden, Doctoral student in composition
At CIRMMT :
- Sylvain Pohu, production assistant
- Julien Boissinot, system/technical manager
At Detmold University of Music :
-Stefanos Ioannaou, B.Mus. student in Musikübertragung/Tonmeister
ODESSA
ODESSA I — Montreal
1. Perception of Violin Section
6. Alternating Sections
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