[Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Ken Moore
Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote A more interesting question for clefs with CB is whether to continue to notate them 8vb below sounding pitch. This can be a quite difficult choice. A note that has excessive leger lines in 8vb bass clef can be too low in at-pitch tenor or treble. My

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Raymond Horton
Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote A more interesting question for clefs with CB is whether to continue to notate them 8vb below sounding pitch. This can be a quite difficult choice. A note that has excessive leger lines in 8vb bass clef can be too low in at-pitch tenor or treble.

RE: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Lee Actor
Where has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be written to be sounding 8ba. Bass players, in order to cover all the available solo and orchestral literature, have to learn treble and tenor clefs, both

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Patterson
Raymond Horton wrote: Where has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be written to be sounding 8ba. I believe at-pitch treble is fairly common in contemporary orchestral scores. This week we are

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Raymond Horton
Where has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be written to be sounding 8ba. Bass players, in order to cover all the available solo and orchestral literature, have to learn treble and tenor clefs, both

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Raymond Horton
Robert Patterson wrote: Raymond Horton wrote: Where has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be written to be sounding 8ba. I believe at-pitch treble is fairly common in contemporary orchestral

Re: [Finale] Re: Contrabass and clefs

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 16, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: here has anyone come across a bass passage printed loco (except in a C score, of course)? It's non-standard. Even harmonics should be written to be sounding 8ba. This standard was developed only during the course of the 20th c. Earlier,