Unlike in orchestra scores these days, transposed is overwhelmingly the choice of concert band and wind ensemble composers and arrangers.
If you decide non-transposed, C score (rather than strict concert score) is suggested, otherwise your piccolo, string bass, xylophone, and glockenspiel parts will be littered with ledger lines or 8vb markings. I suggest the octave clefs in that case. I hate not knowing what octave is meant when I look at a score. But I would vote for transposed. Christopher > On Wed Aug 8, at WednesdayAug 8 2:02 PM, David Froom <dfr...@smcm.edu> wrote: > > Again, many thanks to Ryan Beard and Christopher Smith for all of the advice. > > Very last question: > > C score or transposed score? Again, coming from the orchestra world, I > learned from conductors who say that they want to see in front of them what > the players see — so when they ask about, for example, the Eb clarinet’s C# > in measure 74, they are asking about the written note C# that they and the > player sees, instead of having to translate from seeing a C-score E-nat (or > saying “concert E-nat”). So, all of my instincts and working methods tell me > that I should write a transposed score. But what do band directors want to > see? > > Does this answer depend on the band? This is for a professional group, with > no expectation that it ever would be done by high school or amateur or > non-conservatory college bands. > > Thanks again, > David > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
