Carlberg Jones wrote:
Don't thing clefs. Don't think intervals.
Think in the key. You've got to know your horn very well to do this, but
it's no more difficult than playing a part in F.
I think this is also the way I transpose most of the time. Horn parts
are just movable-Do solfege. When you see a printed horn part with "C D
E F G A B C," think "Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do," then the transposition
tells you which key you're in. So for Horn in B-flat, it's "Bb C D Eb F
G A Bb" in concert pitch (that's F G A Bb C D E F in "F-horn-speak").
All you have to figure out is which octave to play it in!
I'll admit that most of the time I try to explain transposition to other
people like this, it blows their minds.
As far as Horn in H (B-natural), I've tried to convince myself that it's
an easy transposition since when every note is a tritone apart from
printed, you only have to memorize 6 pairs of notes. Alas, it doesn't
work for this brain.
Greg
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