On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > familiar with Piston. But of course any > first-semester orchestration course has to spend > hours on the ranges and transpositions, while in > my Vocal-Choral Arranging class I have the > students actually ARRANGING short exercises from > day one.
I am still appalled at people in music at advanced stages (including one conductor at a very advanced stage) who think that tuba sounds an octave lower than written. It IS a bit confusing for orchestration beginners, since contrabassoon and doublebass (the corresponding contrabass instruments in woodwinds and strings) both sound 8ba, but no one ever said life would be consistent. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
