At 8:19 PM -0400 8/3/10, Darcy James Argue wrote:
John,
Indicating the transposition for octave-transposition instruments
*is* in fact frequently done in concert pitch scores (aka "scores in
C," though I much prefer the term "concert pitch scores").
I don't question that, but I never write concert pitch scores (except
for entering notes, when it can be very helpful), never send them
out, and I would be very annoyed to open a score and find it in
concert pitch. Perhaps that's just because I've been reading
orchestra scores since before I entered junior high! I regularly use
the tenor G clef for male vocal parts, since THAT clef has been
everything under the sun since the late 19th century, but I would see
no useful value to having stacks of ledger lines for piccolo or
double bass. Guitar, yes, since concert pitch would not be any worse
than trying to shoehorn alto or tenor sax or horn into concert pitch.
And of course viola or any of the other C clef parts ARE concert
pitch.
John
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