Concert pitch scores are strongly preferred in new music circles. This has been true for years. I use transposed scores for my own music, but the vast majority of the scores I've worked on as a copyist have been concert pitch scores. I happen to know that the composers and conductors I've worked for who insist on concert pitch scores (Petr Kotik, Christian Wolff, Somei Satoh, to name a few) are perfectly comfortable reading transposed orchestral scores as well.
Alto clef is a nonsequitur. Nobody brought that up. Of course nobody has a problem with alto or tenor clef in a concert pitch score. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 3 Aug 2010, at 9:02 PM, John Howell wrote: > 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 > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[email protected]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
