At 3:34 PM -0500 6/9/12, 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
Paul: My answer would be yes, it is necessary as long as repertoire using the other convention is still performed regularly in editions that retain that convention, and as long as we keep teaching new horn players who will run embouchure-first into the questions that the competing conventions continue to create. If logic and simplicity ruled we'd all be speaking Esperanto, but I haven't noticed that happening. Which is the long way of saying yes, it's REALLY necessary if you want your intentions to be clear. But it's a question better directed to horn players and horn professors. What does the IHS have to say about it? John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
