> What ruffles my feathers is the suggestion implied by > more than one person in this discussion that a preference for concert pitch > is ipso facto an admission of inferior aural/reading skills.
Probably I am one such person in this discussion.. It's not my opinion at all that preference for concert scores is dumber. I have a slight complaint that ability to transpose generally and to sight read transposed scores seems increasingly a dead skill among accompanists. Actually my sense of pitch is blighted by having learnt the cornet before anything else. If you say Eb to me, I hear a major second - Db (from the brass..) and an actual Eb. (Tuned as 9/8 even more illogically.) If I hear a melody, often it is mentally in Bb and accompanied by fingering. I have to transpose it to join in at the piano. Occasionally, I have the mental fingering for Bb whilst mentally hearing in concert which sometimes leads to playing piano a tone too high... All increasing OT.... Steve P. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
