At 5:58 PM -0400 5/6/11, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
That's how I learned to transpose back in 1967. I was copyist for Rutgers University Wind Ensemble (not much, but it paid my expenses). We were doing the Berlioz Funeral & Triumphal Symphony for winds & chorus. The horns were transposed into umpty jillion keys depending on which crooks were required, and I had to transpose that mess for F horns ... plus I was working with a shiny wet-copy sent from Paris of the nigh-illegible full score with the old-style reverse-eighth-rest quarter rests. Copying in India ink (or whatever that scratch-off ink was) onto transparencies. I never learned to love transposition.
Well-schooled orchestral horn players could have read the original parts at sight. University band horn players SHOULD be able to transpose, at least if they're taking lessons. "Regular" band players will panic if you even put an Eb horn part in front of them!
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