The last time I had to mark up a set of orchestral parts from a critical Bärenreiter edition of a Mozart opera, there were two sets of horn parts. The horn players told me they preferred to use the parts written as in the original, without key signatures.
As to David's original question, I would think that the key signature was just a mistake made by a careless engraver. Michael On 30 Oct 2010, at 02:57, John Howell 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
