At 10:10 PM -0400 10/21/05, Raymond Horton wrote:
Very useful advice, Keith!
I try to teach high school trombone and euphonium players to read
all clefs and as many transpositions as practical, too. For example
- F horn transposition can be very useful for a euphonium or
trombone player. If one goes around to community groups waiting for
a part labeled and transposed just for their instrument before they
can play, they will often be left out. (One can also save a gig for
those first hectic minutes when another guy's car has broken down
somewhere. etc...)
I hesitate to point out--well, obviously I don't!--that instead of
all these learn-one-thing approaches (reading Eb horn parts for a
horn player at sight comes to mind), if one has learned the system of
9 movable clefs to the point of being able to actually use it in
practice, it can be used to cover just about any kind of
transposition. I've known singers with perfect pitch for whom this
skill was a life saver. Boulanger was still teaching the clefs to
her students, while most Americans have never heard of them unless
they are doctoral candidates in musicology! Horn in F?
Mezzo-soprano clef; piece of cake!
John
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