> Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:25:50 -0400 > From: David Santamauro <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: orchestral template, please comment > To: "Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> > Cc: Keith E OHara <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Message-ID: <20101018062550.370d4...@debussy> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:18:52 +0100 > "Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Shouldn't the music for the Horn in F be printed in D major? > > It is very common for key signatures to be omitted for Horn. As the > notes themselves are correct transpositions, it looks ok. > > There is also a discrepancy between the transposition direction > (down 5th or up 4th). Some scores actually place an ambitus-sort-of > note at the beginning of the horn staff to indicate the transposition > direction. > > One other comment that I think it would also be a good addition to the > template is that between the differing instrument choirs (woodwinds, > brass, voice, strings), there should be visual 'space' in addition to > the grouping itself. > > David > >
David, I am open to the possibility that I'm wrong in some cases, but in thirty-plus years of playing the horn, I've never seen any ambiguity in horn transposition like you describe. Horn in F is *always* sounding a fifth lower than notated. The only place I know of ambiguity is in parts with bass clef, where "old notation" means that the pitch as played is a fourth higher than what is notated, but this is limited to a certain period in history (i.e. classical period) and is generally discernible by context (e.g. if the note lower than it is possible to play for a good player, then it must be old notation). In such cases, I've never seen the ambitus-like notation that you describe, but I can see how it would be helpful for those unsure of the notation. Regards, Tim Reeves _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
