Speaking for myself, I pencil in most accidentals from key signatures. I primarily encounter key signatures in pops arrangements where rehearsal time is extremely tight. Better safe than sorry. But that doesn't mean we complain about it either.
I can't speak about critical editions of classical pieces, because I've only seen original notation in those editions. (Frankly, it surprises me to learn an F-transposed part might be available from, e.g., Bärenreiter.) For editions like Kalmus, the F-transposed parts usually have key signatures. I don't personally know a single professional horn player who works from F-transposed parts. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:57 PM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > At 8:22 PM -0400 10/29/10, David W. Fenton wrote: > >> On 29 Oct 2010 at 16:53, Chuck Israels wrote: >> >> That is the explanation I expected, but it's hard for me to swallow >>> the reasoning that this tradition should hold for modern valved horns >>> and not for trumpets - more or less modern valved bugles. >>> >> > Conventions and traditions don't have to be logical, and often are not. > And you might not like them, but that won't change them. > > > I would be interested to know what the part sets that go with modern >> critical editions have in them, i.e., if they have both natural horn >> parts in C and parts notated with a key signature for horns in F. >> > > As you know, most modern part sets are reprints of public domain sets, so > those normally have only the original parts. But Luck's, Kalmus, and > perhaps others have made a point of preparing and publishing sets that > include transposed parts for modern "standard" instruments, including > clarinets in Bb, trumpets in Bb, and horns in F, and quite often trombone > parts in bass clef as well. > > Highly experienced orchestral players often prefer to read from the > original parts, feeling (as do many early music players) that they provide > information that's lost in a modern edition. > > Critical editions are a different animal, and I'm not sure how those sets > are handled. Since they are also almost always much more expensive than the > reprints (especially the Bärenreiter editions), I usually see the reprint > parts. > > > 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
