At 6:42 AM -0600 10/29/10, James Cooper wrote:
I thought the tradition was to not use key signatures for horns. (Scores I
have here are consistent with that.) But I'm not a horn player, so I'm sure
someone might have a more complete answer.
That was indeed the tradition for natural horn, and it continued on
into the era of the valve horn. In fact even today some orchestral
players prefer not to have key signatures. Band players, on the
other hand, would think you're crazy if you didn't give them the
expected key signatures. Like most things in music, it's what you're
used to.
But David's example does seem a bit bizarre, and not in ANY tradition!
John
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David W. Fenton
<[email protected]>wrote:
I'm researching an edition of a Mozart Mass from 1843 that includes
an added horn part (i.e., the original had no horns). The score has
it listed as "Corni in F" and the key of the piece is in F, but the
key signature for the horns is the same as for the non-transposing
instruments.
There aren't any Bbs anywhere in the piece, so it doesn't matter, but
to me, this is the wrong key signature, since it's notated
transposing so that a C sounds F.
Is this something that was common?
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