They're professionals, they do what they have to to get the right note out. I can deal with the pencil marks, but I am bemused that they find them necessary. The freelancers have no problems; it's a couple of older tenured guys who play 95% pre-20th century repertoire that complain, and they mostly sub out for the pops concerts that I arrange for.
I pick my battles, as I am not TRYING to put up barriers, but I'm not pandering either. You know what a pain it can be to deal with only 4 instruments in a score that don't use key signatures while everyone else does. I can't copy music in or out of those staves, I have to set key signatures separately (that's one operation for the entire score, then one more operation for EACH non-key staff), and I have check each and every accidental because of the buggy way Finale deals with non-key-signature staves. For a project due last week, I had a week to do three pieces for full pops orchestra with 6 singers and rhythm section, of which one was an 500 measure, 18-tune medley with modulations. If I had to work with all the horns staves as non-key-signature, it would have prevented me from meeting the deadline, most likely. Christopher On Sat Jun 9, at SaturdayJun 9 6:16 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > About the key sigs, I guess I am confused. Are you saying you would rather > them play the wrong notes than pencil in the accis? Because that's your > choice given one rehearsal (which is how many most of my gigs with key sigs > have). > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Christopher Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, because horn players still regularly play the repertoire where that >> terrible convention was used, and might assume that the composer meant it >> that way. >> >> Heck, I get complaints from horn players who play mostly Classical >> repertoire because I write with key signatures! Sheesh, get with it, guys, >> I say to them. I get the parts back with EVERY alteration pencilled in. >> >> Christopher >> >> >> On Sat Jun 9, at SaturdayJun 9 4:34 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: >> >>> How many years has it been since any composer wrote a horn part in the >> bass clef intending it to sound up a fourth? I still write a note about how >> "the horn part sounds down a fifth regardless of clef". But do you think >> this is _really_ necessary in 2012? >>> >>> Paul Hayden >>> >>> >>> Magnolia Music Press >>> <www.paulhayden.com> >>> Voice & Pre-arranged fax: 225-769-9604 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
