Good Lord .... it just keeps getting worse .... my job pales by
comparison ...
Dean
On May 6, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2011 10:17 pm, John Howell wrote:
At 5:58 PM -0400 5/6/11, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
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.
Well-schooled orchestral horn players could have read the original
parts at sight. University band horn players SHOULD be able to
transpose, at least if they're taking lessons. "Regular" band
players will panic if you even put an Eb horn part in front of them!
These were horns in keys like E, Eb, G, B, A, etc. Just about every
key as I
recall -- AND with the lower bass clef transpositions and those
reversed
rests. We were doing what the conductor believed to have been the
US premiere
(there was one recording dated earlier, but at the time he believed
it hadn't
been heard before here), so there were no parts. Everything had to
be copied
out anyway, so might as well make the parts for horns in F. I guess
I was
cheap enough. :)
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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