Read it in alto clef
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Dean M. Estabrook <[email protected]>wrote: > You got it ......... > > > On May 6, 2011, at 7:17 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! >> >> 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 >> > > I have opened my soul/To let in the warmth of sound/Now my saving grace > Adrian Estabrook, author > > And ... I remain intrigued that some folks who accept and practice, with > absolute fidelity, the concepts of, say, feng shui and pyramids, should > find the task of extending their leaps of faith to include an existent God > so arduous. > Dean M. Estabrook > http://sites.google.com/site/deanestabrook/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
