At 1:58 PM +0200 6/5/07, shirling & neueweise wrote:
can anyone tell me if the banjo is written transposed?
Interesting question. Most often, of course, it is only written in chord symbols, but we just got the music for our community summer musical ("Bye Bye Birdie") and I went through the books this afternoon. There is a single short passage for banjo in No. 1 "Overture A." The notation is from c' (Helmholz notation for middle C) up to d''. I suspect that this does sound an octave lower, just as the guitar does. It just doesn't sound right to my inner ear at pitch.
Of course one assumes that this would be the tenor banjo and not the common 5-string bluegrass banjo, and I suspect the tuning and possibly the notation would be different.
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