Bruce Hunter wrote:
Sorry, I'm the one who was not clear. Actually I hadn't meant to suggest
anything, just reporting what a reproduction of the original score
indicated.
Andrew Stiller has reminded me that recorders aren't transposing
instruments. I guess, like the bass clef instruments that don't
transpose. The fiction is maintained by transposing the fingering
charts, of course. It appears I'm the only person in the whole world
that is bothered by this, so I guess I need to let it be.
Actually, many people who begin with soprano recorder are bothered by
this all the time.
And there are editions which provide 'transposed' alto recorder parts,
so that a soprano player doesn't have to learn a second set of
fingerings to play the alto recorder, but looks at the music and fingers
it just as if they were playing soprano, and it comes out sounding
properly when played on alto.
Speaking as a person for whom recorder was my first woodwind (I started
on trumpet and played that and euphonium only before learning recorder),
it took me all of a week or so to learn alto recorder as a separate
instrument. It's not hard at all.
--
David H. Bailey
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