In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Traditionally, all the parts in a standard "British-style" Brass Band (of which >there are representative examples all over the world, including mainland Europe >and North America) are in transposed Treble Clef, even the Tenor Trombones and >EEb & BBb Tubas, which we refer to as Basses. The only exception is the Bass >Trombone, which uses Bass Clef in Concert. This goes right back, at least to >the oldest music in my band's library dated 1862. In my band most of the sets had tenor clef for the tenor trombones, and bass clef concert parts for the Eb basses, as you describe below. >Some of the older music we play has the Tenor Trom parts in Tenor Clef Concert. >Players soon learn that the lines and spaces are the same as if playing in >transposed Treble Clef, but then have to remember that the key signature has to >have 2 fewer flats (or 2 more sharps) than shown. Similarly, some old music >occasionally has one or both the Bass parts in Bass Clef (I imagine because the >publishers were trying to keep costs down and cover Brass Bands & Wind Bands >with the same set). The Eb Tubas then find that reading Bass Clef as Treble >Clef and deducting 3 flats (or adding 3 sharps) also gives the correct tones. > >I've never heard of Bass Clef transposed before. Bass clarinet players used to have to put up with it. I find it easier to read when I am conducting (at least the part looks like its register), but modern composers avoid it, by and large. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
