This is an interesting discussion, but can somebody please provide a bit of background as to why there exists literature in which only the horn parts would be written without a key signature?
Liudas ----- Original Message ----- From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harold Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Horns and signatures > Coming as I do mostly from the band world, I say, party on, dude! Key > signatures are the standard for band literature, and also for > school-orchestra music as well. It is only the vast world of reprints > of older editions (i.e. Luck's and Kalmus) in the orchestral world that > continues to keep the non-key signature tradition alive. Horn players > who choose to enter the professional world these days certainly need to > be well-versed in both types of parts. I don't recall ever seeing a > brass ensemble horn part that lacked key signature (other than music > which put the horn part in the key of C major or a minor). > > Since we can't change the huge number of key-signature-less orchestral > music, we can't completely eliminate such literature, but I agree that > horn players should be able to read key signatures easily. > > My advice would be to include key signatures in your parts as you feel > best fits the situation. > > David H. Bailey > > > > Harold Owen wrote: > > > Dear folks, > > > > Knowing that many will disagree with me, but IMHO I think it's time for > > horn players to get used to reading key signatures in their parts. > > Younger players are more likely to find signatures often enough to be > > comfortable with them. The "old pros" should get with it and learn to > > play from parts with signatures. If that's difficult for them, let them > > mark the accidentals in their parts. Why should they be treated > > differently from the other members of the brass family? Much of my own > > music does not use signatures for any parts because they tend to get in > > the way when the tonal focus is weak or changes often. However, some of > > my pieces have a strong enough tonal focus that signatures are helpful > > -- actually mean something. In those pieces that involve horn parts, I > > will give them signatures. > > > > What say you? > > > > Hal > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
