Hi Alan and Everyone,
Alan's story goes right along with what I had to do for Christmas eve this
year. I was hired to do a kind of a Transiberian Orchestra kind of church
service. A rock band, string quartet and me playing on one side of a
gymnasium (the church is new and does not have a
The first transportation I learned was Eb because back in those dark ages
much band music was for Eb horn. I had played the horn less than 6 weeks
when I was first required to learn to transpose. Normally now I teach C
transposition first because so many kids have keyboards and/or pianos and
Oops! I meant transposition. Ellen
The first transportation I learned was Eb because back in those dark ages
much band music was for Eb horn. I had played the horn less than 6 weeks
when I was first required to learn to transpose. Normally now I teach C
transposition first because so
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 03:33 PM, Ellen Manthe wrote:
Oops! I meant transposition. Ellen
The first transportation I learned was Eb because back in those dark
ages
much band music was for Eb horn. Ellen Manthe
It is OK! Ellen. You did transport the music from one key to the next.
Ellen Manthe wrote
The first transportation I learned was
Oops! I meant transposition.
Paul Mansur wrote:
It is OK! Ellen. You did transport the music from one key to the next.
...and in fact in other languages, transport is indeed the Latin root used
for this concept. In Spanish the normal
I have only ever seen horn parts (also very old ones) for the Royal
Fireworks Music which are written as sounding (or an octave higher to be
exact) with 2 sharps in the key signature and marked horn in C (But
always played on D Horns).
If I understand you properly you are seeing this for the
A couple of years ago I signed up to play a brass ensemble Easter church
gig. Most of the parts in my book were for Horn In F. But for the
Hallelujah Chorus, I got the part for 2nd Trumpet In D (or some such
key). No way around it -- I had to write out a Horn In F transposition,
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 06:04 PM, Benno Heinemann wrote:
I have only ever seen horn parts (also very old ones) for the Royal
Fireworks Music which are written as sounding (or an octave higher to
be exact) with 2 sharps in the key signature and marked horn in C
(But always played on D
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