One of my composition students just gave our symphonic band a piece that had some double low E's for the horns in bass clef. I tried to warn my student; my less experienced students who have mostly band experience expressed some anxieties about the low pedals, and admitted they didn't even know those notes existed.
Bob Dickow Lionel Hampton School of Music University of Idaho, Moscow -----Original Message----- While I have rarely seen pieces composed /for/ band that call for French Horn in bass cleff, my school's Wind Symphony has played tons of orchestral arrangements where the fourth, and even third, horns play more than half of the time in bass clef. An example of such a piece <snip> _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
