On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, <ardee...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I was taught on a single B Flat horn. As I have perfect pitch, this made it > very difficult to grasp the concept of a *C* = sounding as *F* on a *B Flat* > Instrument.
I went to college with a French Horn player with perfect pitch. (Her name was, if memory serves, Susan Bergey - anyone know where she's at these days? I was a Mannes from 1982-84 as a graduate student and I think she was an undergrad but I don't really remember.) She'd been playing horn for a long time, and she said all the clef stuff we were learning for the purpose of transposition was unnecessary to her - she'd gotten used to thinking of everything as a transposition and just got good at reading by interval, both vertically and horizontally, so she did her clef work in ear-training class by doing the opposite of what I do - she'd look at mezzo-soprano clef and think "horn in F" to get the solfege right. For this old dog, just learning to play the d...@#$ed horn is enough of a new trick! -S- _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
