At 8:22 PM -0400 10/29/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 29 Oct 2010 at 16:53, Chuck Israels wrote:
That is the explanation I expected, but it's hard for me to swallow
the reasoning that this tradition should hold for modern valved horns
and not for trumpets - more or less modern valved bugles.
Conventions and traditions don't have to be
logical, and often are not. And you might not
like them, but that won't change them.
I would be interested to know what the part sets that go with modern
critical editions have in them, i.e., if they have both natural horn
parts in C and parts notated with a key signature for horns in F.
As you know, most modern part sets are reprints
of public domain sets, so those normally have
only the original parts. But Luck's, Kalmus, and
perhaps others have made a point of preparing and
publishing sets that include transposed parts for
modern "standard" instruments, including
clarinets in Bb, trumpets in Bb, and horns in F,
and quite often trombone parts in bass clef as
well.
Highly experienced orchestral players often
prefer to read from the original parts, feeling
(as do many early music players) that they
provide information that's lost in a modern
edition.
Critical editions are a different animal, and I'm
not sure how those sets are handled. Since they
are also almost always much more expensive than
the reprints (especially the Bärenreiter
editions), I usually see the reprint parts.
John
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