Posted by Rick Denney on October 02, 2001 at 11:46:18:
In Reply to: Bydlo---Tuba or Euphonium? posted by Lee Harrelson on October 02, 2001 at 11:20:34:
I'm sure you already have _The Tuba Family_ by Clifford Bevan, 2nd Edition, Piccolo Press, 2001. In it, he talks about the instrument expected by Ravel was a small French tuba in C, pitched a step higher than a euphonium.
In his CD Orchestral Excerpts for Tuba, Eugene Pokorny suggests that the part be given to a trombone player and played on a euphonium, and then proceeds to undermine his point by playing it sublimely on what I understand was an Alexander Tenor Tuba (that rare instrument seems to be like an oversized euphonium).
Like I said, I'm sure you have these already, but I thought I'd get some the obvious secondary sources out of the way in hopes that the more learned among us will reveal more primary sources.
Rick "trying not to assume too much" Denney