I remember playing Mozart's opera "Il Re Pastore" and it has 4 horns, each one crooked in a different key. We were using hand horns and it really did mess with my sense of where I was. It's easy to get kind of comfortable on hand horn with knowing what part of the chord you have just by looking, but on this opera there would be, say a written C, but it ends up being the 7th of the chord. Not terribly difficult, but it took a little extra attention! Maybe some kind of perfect pitch would have helped.
- Steve Mumford _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org