God ... and honest horror story .... I guess we've all done stuff like that ....

Cheers,


Dean

On May 6, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

On Fri, May 6, 2011 5:48 pm, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Yeah ... that makes sense .... part of my confusion lies in the fact
that I'm transposing the work as a whole from D Major up to E-flat
Major ... so my brain was freezing in the face of triple
transpositions .... have mercy ...

That's how I learned to transpose back in 1967. I was copyist for Rutgers University Wind Ensemble (not much, but it paid my expenses). We were doing the Berlioz Funeral & Triumphal Symphony for winds & chorus. The horns were transposed into umpty jillion keys depending on which crooks were required, and I had to transpose that mess for F horns ... plus I was working with a shiny wet-copy sent from Paris of the nigh-illegible full score with the old-style reverse-eighth-rest quarter rests. Copying in India ink (or whatever
that scratch-off ink was) onto transparencies. I never learned to love
transposition.

Dennis


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And ... I remain intrigued that some folks who accept and practice, with absolute fidelity, the concepts of, say, feng shui and pyramids, should find the task of extending their leaps of faith to include an existent God so arduous.
Dean M. Estabrook
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