At 6:47 PM -0500 1/06/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 06/01/2004 23:44:39 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The conductor (who is looking at the score) wants to know what the piece
SOUNDS like....so write everyting at sounding pitch. And emphasise this
on the cover "SCORE IN C" (I've yet to hear a complaint that this isn't
obvious enough)
Personal view - I hate scores in concert pitch - I want my score to match exactly what the players have in front of them, quite apart from wanting to see where in the instrument's register the parts lie.
All the best,
Lawrence
I have to agree. Plus there is the convention of
octave-transposing instruments in the WRITTEN octave in the score,
rather than the sounding octave, which tends to negate the philosophy
behind the conductor seeing the sounding pitch. Otherwise one has tens
of ledger lines in glock, xylo, piccolo, and bass parts.
Christopher
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