At 11:29 PM -0500 10/29/10, Robert Patterson wrote:
I don't personally know a single professional horn player who works from F-transposed parts.
Yes, and that's what the folks on the jazz and commercial side need to understand. Part of an orchestral horn player's pre-professional education is working through the orchestral excerpts books and learning to play from original notation in any reasonable transposition at sight. The worst I ever ran into was in high school, when I was still a horn player, and was playing 4th in a university conducting class orchestra. One of the Brahms symphonies has horn in B, a tritone transposition!!! (And yes, it was REALLY for horn in B, or H, and not in Bb basso!)
My problem is that in our small-town-with-a-large-university, when I recruit horn players for our chamber orchestra they are often band players, not orchestral players, and they have NOT learned to transpose from original parts, so I've had to learn where to obtain the transposed parts (and sometimes to transpose them myself for those players).
But it's like the need to provide euphonium parts in band arrangements in both bass clef and transposed treble clef. You can argue all you want about why it shouldn't be necessary, but in practice it is, and we give the players what they want to see.
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