At 1:23 PM -0400 10/12/12, William Sinclair wrote: > Do you mean in the KEY of C, or in the Concert >key (piano,bass, drums, etc.) ? >Most vocalists I work with want the score in her key to fit her vocal range. >Usually the female key is a major 4th or 5th above the "standard" key. >This fits an alto range. The "standard" key is for a male tenor generally. >That's because the setup costs are minimal, the melody fits on the staff.
The term "C score" is a misnomer. "C" is a key, with a key signature using neither sharps nor flats. What is generally meant is either a "concert pitch score" which, of course would use normal key signatures for tonal music, or "no key signature score" for music without established tonal centers. I assume that the original poster actually meant "concert pitch score," but there are actually three very different choices. And even when that is implied, the discussion then moves to the next level, which is how to handle notation for instruments that normally use octave-transposing clefs, including piccolo, orchestra bells, xylophone, contrabassoon, classical guitar, bass guitar, and contrabass violin. Or which clef to use for instruments that sit in the middle of the keyboard and are uncomfortable in EITHER treble or bass clef, including viola, tenor sax, and horn, since the same folks who advocate concert pitch scores are usually uncomfortable with the use of C clefs rather than just treble and bass even though C clefs ARE concert pitch! 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
