I suspect the A# major triad(s) in my brass quartet gave the players involved a chance to cash in some practive routines that they don't get to redeem very often!
ajr > At 4:29 PM -0400 9/30/09, dhbailey wrote: >>And I can't think of very many musical situations where you would >>want some of the musicians to be in one key and others to be in a >>different key, even if enharmonically equivalent. > > Au contraire! Writing for a university show ensemble with a 12-piece > showband, we always put the music in the right keys for the voices, > which often put the alto and bari in multiple sharps. I always > crossed over to give them fewer flats rather than more sharps, and > never had a problem with it. > >>I agree with Aaron that even if a person wants two different key >>signatures, it should definitely be the users' decision, not the >>program's. > > Absolutely! But most of that writing was in the days of hand > copying, and sometimes my mind refused to cooperate! > >>P.S. by the time you're writing music with 7 flats -- it's for >>advanced musicians who should be equally comfortable playing in >>flats or sharps. > > I have to say that my alto and bari players learned to take multiple > sharps in stride and sightread them just fine, and these were college > students who likely were NOT music majors. They just got used to it. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
