"Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> A more interesting question for clefs with CB is whether to continue
> to notate them 8vb below sounding pitch. This can be a quite difficult
> choice. A note that has excessive leger lines in 8vb bass clef can be
> too low in at-pitch tenor or treble.
> My understanding is that professional bass players can routinely read
> 8vb bass, 8vb tenor, and at-pitch treble. I'm not as sure about
> at-pitch tenor. In any case, any clef change probably requires a
> notation as to whether it is 8vb or at pitch.
I don't know of any convention that string bass parts in tenor or treble
clef should be played at pitch. I would hope that if that was required
it would be annotated specifically. One meets treble clef rarely, but
on the three occasions that I have played Shostakovich's 10th symphony,
I have played the (fiendish) treble clef passage in the scherzo with the
8vb transposition, as a continuation of the bass clef convention. So
did all the other players, and the conductors never commented.
As a late comer to the bass, after many years of piano and horn, I much
prefer treble to tenor clef and, after a fair amount of score reading,
prefer alto to it also.
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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