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December 14

Edwin Porter

Did Edwin Porter ever do any paintings? I have a painting in my family for many years signed Edwin Porter. Thank You for you help. Paul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.250.65.107 (talk) 00:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then I think the conclusion is inescapable: an Edwin Porter has painted at least one picture. But whether it's this Edwin Porter (who was a sign painter at one stage of his career) or some other Edwin Porter - there's no possible way of knowing without further information. -- 202.142.129.66 (talk) 01:56, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could have been done by the Earl of Oxford or Francis Bacon. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:27, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Code for scoring of music

According to the publisher's website, Merkevitch's L'envol d'Icare is scored for, "3(I,IItuned quartertone flat).picc.2(II=corA).1.Ebcl.2.dbn-4.2.3.1- timp.perc(4):SD without snares, provencale dr;tgl/susp.cym/tam-t;SD/ BD/TD;xyl/glsp-cel-pft-strings(8,including 2 soli tuned quartertone sharp.8.6.6,including 2 soli tuned quartertone sharp.4)". Unfortunately, quite a lot of that is Greek to me. Does anyone know of an online guide which would help me make sense of it? Henry ^Flower 14:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about an online guide, but here is a translation:

Woodwinds: 3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes (second doubling on English Horn), 2 clarinets (1 in B-flat and one in E-flat), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon
Brass: 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba
Percussion: timpani and 4 additional players:
- snare drum and provencale drum
- triangle, suspended cymbal and tam-tam
- snare drum, bass drum, tenor drum
- xylophone, glockenspiel, celeste and piano
Strings: 8 first violins, 8 second violins, 6 violas, 6 celli, 4 double basses

In addition, several instruments are mentioned as being tuned in a non-standard way. Our article Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation has some explanation of the abbreviations used. --Thomprod (talk) 17:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]