What matters is that the higher brass instruments (trumpet, horn, fluegelhorn, etc.) tend to read from transposed parts, while the lower brass instruments (trombone, euphonium, tuba, etc.) tend to read from concert pitch parts, regardless what key their instrument is in.
What they told me about this in college is that brass instruments in bass clef are VERY rarely transposed.
Except, of course, for the F horn... but that's usually the odd one out anyway. There's really no standard as to which octave it's transposed into when it's in bass clef, either.
Not over here (France). We have a band that has Euphonium (Bariton) and Tuba players that read in:
Concert pitch Bass clef Bb Bass clef (transposed) B flat Treble clef (transposed)
Every piece of music needs to have 6 parts for just these 2 instruments!
This demonstrates the complete and utter mess bands have got themselves into over the years. You only need to take a look at EMR publications in Switzerland to comprehend the ridiculous number of alternative transposed parts that are required if you wish to sell your music throughout the European countries.
Wouldn't it be great if like the adapting the 'euro' as a currency we all decided to go concert. I would venture to guess that this could also help in consolidating the manufacturers of these instruments.
Jonathan Smith
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