> I think "concert pitch" scores make a lot of sense for contemporary pieces > that lack key signatures, because without the key signature as a cue, it is > difficult to tell the transposition at a glance
I have written scores where the transposition from C us indicates but bracketed. So a Bb trumpet part would have two sharps in the score in parentheses. All accidentals still marked and no key sig. in the parts. Purely as a score label. The criticism here is that of implied tonality but it doesn't seem much worse to me than the fact that the term 'accidental' implies some kind if norm. Also 'two sharps' could have a key centre of B minor or D or a mode or momentarily something else altogether so it really implies nothing. Steve P. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
