You are best served here to give them two Eb tuba parts--one at pitch in bass clef and one using bari sax transposition--treble clef written middle C equals Eb below the bass staff. You would be correct of you noticed that the parts will look alike, but accidentals will pose problems. Tubists often read Bari sax parts by making believe it's in bass clef and adding three flats to the keysig, but finale makes it easy to do both types of part. Jim
Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. On May 10, 2010, at 8:15 PM, "Ryan" <ry.squa...@gmail.com> wrote: > When a writing for tuba, the part should be written at sounding > (concert) > pitch, correct? If the performer is using an Eb tuba, they don't > need a > transposed part, do they? > Here's the situation, a group in France wants some of my band music. > However, they use Eb horns and Eb tubas. No problem to transpose the > horn > parts for them, but I thought that Eb Tubists read concert pitch > parts and > just learn different fingerings for the notes. Any low notes that > are out of > range (Ab and below) are automatically played an octave higher. > Perhaps in France the current practice is different? Would the > transposition > be similar to that of the Bari Sax? > It's a community group and I don't think the volunteer person (the > "librarian," I think) I'm dealing with is particularly musically > inclined. > Also, I'm sure that some things are getting lost in translation. > Anyone have any idea what they're looking for? > _______________________________________________ > 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
