>John Howell wrote: >> But if you mean for >> them to be played on a modern valve horn in F, you should write them for >> horn in F. > >Nope. For most professionals, at least, it is better to provide them in >the key of the natural horn parts. Some publishers provide both original >key and F parts. I'd guess about 90% of professionals use the original >key parts, given a choice. > >-- >Robert Patterson
Robert (and others who posted similar thoughts): As a former horn player who has NOT played in over 40 years, I have no quarrel with this concept, but the key word is "professionals." Some students learn to transpose parts at some point in their development, but not all do. Band players would by and large stare in incomprehension at a part for horn in G, while orchestral players learn to handle it as a matter of course. In fact I doubt that a majority of band players today are capable of reading from an Eb horn part. In Jr. High and High School I made a point of being able to play from original notation (helped enormously by Phil Farkas' orchestral exerpts book), but most non-professional non-orchestral players do not. (The worst I can ever remember trying to play was a Brahms symphony--No. 4?--with the part in B! For valve horn!! Lord save us from tritone transpositions!!!) John John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
