In brief, only the treble clef is used for transposed parts. Bass clef
instruments, including Eb tubas, CC tubas, and BBb tubas all read at
actual pitch, and always have to the best of my knowledge of
orchestration. Transposed tuba parts were popular when the town band
was in its hey day. Played and fingered just like a cornet in Bb.
P Mansur
On Monday, October 10, 2005, at 07:25 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
I confess to being confused - I was helping a friend's son practice his
audition for the middle school jazz band on the trombone.
I thought the trombone was a B-flat instrument, and so it turns out to
be in
terms of the overtone series it plays, but the part is notated at
concert
pitch.
On the other hand, trumpet parts for B-flat instrument are notated as
such,
sounding a step below written pitch. Horn in F is the same way,
sounding
the appropriate interval below written pitch.
So why is this student trombone part written at concert pitch and not
in
B-flat? Is this a relatively new development in brass pedagogy,
anything
specific to the trombone, or perhaps to jazz/pop charts? I looked at
the
student's method book and it, too, is all in concert pitch.
Thanks in advance for a bit of an eduation here - I have not seen a
"score"
to the piece, only the individual parts for trumpet and trombone (and
I'm
quite sure the trombone part is written at concert pitch).
-S-
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