Steve Larsen wrote:
> Strauss began to almost always favor Horn in F, but often called for changes
> to other keys in the course of the work. The best summary of this confusing
> practice is in Strauss' own words (or at least as translated by Theodore
> Front for Strauss' revision of Berlioz' "Tre
I haven't read all the posts on this, so please forgive me if I'm repeating
what somebody else wrote.
It's not just horns that traditionally had no key signature: also trumpets
and timpani. In the case of the two brass instruments, it followed a logical
chain of events in their historic usage:
1.
