On Jul 4, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
Andrew Stiller, a few weeks back I said some recent scholarship was heading toward alto, tenor and bass trombones all being in Bb in the 18th and 19th centuries. I intended to send you some links at the time but did not. Here are some...
Thanks very much for that. It strikes me as ironic that conventional wisdom on this issue seems to have come full circle in the last twenty years. Back in the '80s (and earlier) everybody believed that the designations alto, tenor, and bass in 19th c. trombone parts represented merely a vestige of earlier practice, and that in fact all three parts were played on the tenor. This latest research seems to bring us *almost* right back around to that same idea.
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