One could discuss all day longs things that singers should and should not do. I think books have been written on the subject. But they are beside the point here.
What I am saying is, if you want the best performance out of the most number of singers, I highly recommend providing a C score. I have paid the price for not so doing and I won't make the same mistake twice. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Raymond Horton <[email protected]>wrote: > Way back in undergrad theory, we were painstakingly, over a period of > time, analyzing the Wagner "Tristan" Prelude and Liebestod from the > miniature full scores. If you recall, that is a particular challenge, > besides the obvious harmonic ones, as it features such transposing > favorites as a pair each of horns in F and E, bass clef-bass clarinet in A, > trumpets in F, plenty of tenor clef, etc. One class I noticed a singer > next to me was using, instead of the tiny full score, a piano reduction he > had found in an anthology. I remarked something negative on that, he said, > rather defensively and unconvincingly, that he checked everything with the > full score, blah, blah. > > Flash forward about five years, I'm playing a recording date in studio for > previously mentioned singer who has written an advertising jingle. Guess > what? We get bogged down because of (who'd-a-guessed it?) transposition > errors in some of the parts. We have to stop and fix the parts, we go into > overtime, singer-leader is sweating because he's going over budget. > > It's good for singers to learn to transpose, also. > > Raymond Horton > Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra > Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC > Composer, Arranger > VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:15 PM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 2:41 PM -0500 10/1/12, Robert Patterson wrote: > > >No, I mean vocal chamber music with transposing instruments. > > > > > > Ahhh. That didn't occur to me. Sorry. But why > > is that really a problem? 90% of singers > > couldn't read a viola part in alto clef, either, > > but *I* would want to see it where it belongs. > > Isn't that what the piano reduction is for in the > > first place? It WILL be used for practice as the > > singer learns his or her part. > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
