I generally find "C Scores" very difficult to use. Much of my recent work has been with concert band music wherein many instruments transpose. I have no problem transposing to concert pitch. I DO have a problem spotting potential problem areas in a C score. For example, most saxophones have certain pitches that tend to be out of tune with the instrument. The same goes for cornets and trumpets. Also clarinets. And horns.
I find it more expedient to see that this G# or that D# will possibly be out of tune in a chord than to remember "B's out in the altos; F#s out in the tenors" and so on. When I was recently rehearsing "La Fiesta Mexicana" (H. Owen Reed; comes with a C score) I constantly was transposing parts out of habit and in the wrong direction. For Bb parts I would be off by a major 3rd! I can understand why that work has a C score. However, I found it much easier to rehearse "George Washington Bridge" (William Schuman; similar altered chords and polytonality) transposing the parts from the traditional score, than reading the C score and transposing in the opposite direction as required with H. Owen Reed's work. Guy Hayden, Minister of Music St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 372 Hiden Boulevard Newport News, Virginia 23606 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
