Michael Simpson wrote:
I can't remember not knowing how to read the grand staff, but C clefs still give me more trouble than they should. I remember, from scoring my symphony for brass, that a tenor clef trombone and a Bb trumpet playing an octave higher use the same lines and spaces. There are other tricks too, I bet.
The best-known is that used by Eb tubas and Baritone Saxes -- take the part in bass clef, subtract three flats, and read with a treble clef.
Is the Morris and Ferguson book /Preparatory Exercises in Score Reading/ still in print? That's a good set of exercises to master different clefs. Hope I'm not showing my age...
You're showing my age as well... My freshman theory musicianship teacher (a Boulanger pupil, in fact) had us play and sing through Morris & Ferguson, rewarding errors with sharp jabs from a ruler.
Daniel Wolf
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