How do I make this sound?

How do I write in Finale that I want a french horn (or a group of them) to do sort of a brutal rising of sound? I can't describe it very well, and I can't send an example because I can't upload mp3's... It's like if the instrument sounds barbaric and rising at the same time. Anyone knows how to write such a sound? Does it have a specific symbol or something?

Thanks.

Flugelhorn is too mellow in tone to sound barbaric.

Perhaps you mean the horns rising together, but discordantly? probably with a crescendo.

I believe the term for this is a "rip." I'm fairly certain that Finale doesn't have a specific articulation for this sound so you'd need to engineer one with the expression tool's advanced functions.

Alternatively, if you happen to have GPO, you can read a wonderful tutorial on the subject here.

To the best of my knowledge, any brass instrument can do this btw; it's just harder on anything larger than a trumpet.

Good luck!

Hmmm... I suppose it might be a rip, the name seems to match the sound... But to be sure, I finally managed to upload the file, so here it is:

http://rapidshare.de/files/16144046/brutal..._horns.mp3.html (Choose the Free download)

Is it really a rip? Can it be done?...

Yeah, it's a rip/glissando. I checked the score for the stravinsky passage you uploadedn and it's notated as a very quick six-note arpeggio with a crescendo marking. It also has gliss. marked above it just so that there isn't any confusion on the conductor or player's part about the intended effect.

Another way of doing it is just notating the starting note and ending note and then making a line between the two the same way you would for a string or trombone glissando.

It's one of my favorite effects. :w00t:

Mine too! Thanks a lot!! :D