My personal view is that original music to be transposed, often makes
more sense to me than transposed parts; especially for classical era
works. I find it much easier to perceive the function of the notes
(root, dominant, seventh, etc) in original notation than transposed
parts. The usual transpositions such as E, Eb, D, C, and G for
instance, are easier to read and make more sense to me than
transposed parts. I am an old player, though, and pretty thoroughly
ingrained with transposition as I am now 80 years old. When I was
first starting I was delighted to get transposed parts at. Later, as
I was more experienced I began to prefer the original parts. I still
teach transposition. I think it is a good and useful skill and makes
us into better players. Young kids need the experience to grow in
this craft as players. Face it. Publishers will not underwrite
transposed parts when they have perfectly good, playable parts in
their stockpiles of music.
CORdially, Mansur's Answers
On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's all very well as long as there are transposed copies to play
from. Often there aren't.
Emory Waters
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: horn@music.memphis.edu
Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: [Hornlist] Re: transposing
You people who 'insist' on having horn players transpose make me
laugh.
It's so ridiculous. It's like saying if you're going to drive a car
you have
to learn to drive a stick. No you don't, it's so silly. Drive the
automatic and
give yourself
less grief. I have often found more mistakes on the 'originals'
than the
transposed copies.
Play the transposed F part and get involved with the music you're
playing,
watch the conductor, be in sync with the rest of the section, the
rest of the
symphony.
Leave the mental gymnastics to the Rubik's cube....and yes, I can
transpose
quite well thank
you very much.
Jim
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