At 5:16 PM -0500 6/9/12, 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).
At least in the U.S. (can't comment on other cultures), most horn players get started in school bands, and learn to read key signatures just like every other band member (give or take snare drummers!). They also learn to read F Horn parts (and for those of us of a certain age Eb Horn parts) but not all the rest of them. Parts for horns in exotic keys and parts without key signatures don't show up until later in their careers, in historical orchestral music played from original parts. At that point it may be a preference, but is more of an affectation. I played through the orchestral excerpts book for horn when I was in junior high school, and yes, that introduced me to both bass clef conventions, but most band hornists have not. And I was still in junior high when I was allowed to play 4th horn in my father's graduate conducting class orchestra, and first ran into Brahms' Horn in H parts, with a tritone transposition. Nasty!!!!! 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
