When very young beginners would play the Kopprasch as they (Kopprasch) were thought, they would do it in E, in E flat etc. from the very beginning. Just reading simple chords a step lower, reading a simple C-major scale down one step, a half step etc. A very simple & easy beginning of the transposition. I do not blame the amateur community nor would I blame the youth playing the horn, but I blame their teachers for neglecting transposition. Transposition helps reading music faster, e.g. parts in tonalities with many sharps, as they were written in E & A, to eliminate or reduce the amount of sharps in the part. The same with the flats, by using transposition in E flat or B flat. We horn players like clean parts with a minimum of accidentals.
And, most elderly colleagues adopted the PC as their second or even first toy (or more). They aquired a lot of computer skill at an age, when most have retired allready or nearly, but why not transposition ? This is not understandable at all. And in C or G, what´s the problem. The musical text is most simple most of the time, even for amateurs, as soon as they know how to hold the horn & as soon as they know that the horn has three or more keys, they get lost. And here also, the players are not to be blamed at first, but the school system & the music education special, as the basics are not taught, but a lot about jazz & musical etc. A bit of theory is not bad, as it sharpens the brain. Things go slower in the beginning, well, but after a while those, who experienced the theory, advance much faster & further than those without the theory. ============================================================ =============================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:23 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: Re: [Hornlist] curious pricing simple task of transposing?? Maybe simple to you. Was there once a time when the great Hans, was not so great at transposition? Maybe even a bit scared? I know you would never admit that! I have seen many young students play the heck out of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G...they were too young to be scared...but if they had to play a Mozart symphony in C or in A their eyes would get big and palms would sweat. We need to step back and realize that not everyone on here plays in the great German orchestras, the rest of us nobodies, also like to play the horn, and perhaps we don't have the tradition to learn the horn when we were 3 years old, or pass our horns down to our kids (and remember what Mahler said about tradition), we can still enjoy Mozart......and in the end, why does it matter if we learned Strauss second in F or in Eflat? Could you tell the difference? I enjoy reading your Uberposts Hans! Larry T _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
