John Howell wrote:
At 10:20 PM -0800 1/24/05, Chuck Israels wrote:
Of course, if you followed that logic all the way through, you'd
write the trombones in the tenor clef a lot of the time, and I don't
do that. And I still have to decipher the alto clef for the viola
parts (shame on me for not getting used to that by now). If I wrote
more string music, I'd probably get to the point where that was as
transparent to me as the saxophone transpositions are.
You would, I guarantee it. And not only for writing, but for
playing. Early music often comes in a variety of clefs, and it's a
little scary to start playing a part on, say, tenor recorder, in alto
clef, and by the end of the piece be reading automatically!
John
And don't forget the extra benefit of gaining fluency in all the clefs
-- transposition at sight becomes a breeze. IMO, this should still be a
part of every musician's training.
Daniel Wolf
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