On Fri, May 6, 2011 10:17 pm, John Howell wrote: > 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!
These were horns in keys like E, Eb, G, B, A, etc. Just about every key as I recall -- AND with the lower bass clef transpositions and those reversed rests. We were doing what the conductor believed to have been the US premiere (there was one recording dated earlier, but at the time he believed it hadn't been heard before here), so there were no parts. Everything had to be copied out anyway, so might as well make the parts for horns in F. I guess I was cheap enough. :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
