What are some neat classical music scores with a little modern throwen in?
Vaughan Williams directed the use of a Vibraphone in his eighth symphony. It sounds a lot like an electronic instrument, but the vibration is real, with only a rotating bar changing the sound a bit. Oliver Messiaen invented the Geophone for one of his compositions. It was made of sand in a big drum, I believe. He said it made a sound like ocean waves crashing in the distance. He also promoted the Ondes Martenot, which is played by moving the hand through some sort of field. Sounds weird, too. Some composers in the later 19th and early 20th centurty used the Saxophone, which seems like it should be standard fair in a classical orchestra. Gershwin used it in ‘An American in Paris’, Ravel in his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures’, Debussy wrote a quartet for saxophones, Glazunov wrote a saxophone concerto… Speaking of George Gershwin, I should mention another instrument in ‘An American in Paris’. He wanted to make the sounds of Paris come alive, so he wrote in parts for several tu
