Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 1995/03

From: John Blegen <blegen@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Transpositions
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:53:18 -0500

> Have I hampered the musical development of these junior high and high
> school students? Such transpositions are trivially easy given a fast
> computer, and with music reading software being produced even now, it will
> become even easier. Or are we becoming to dependent on high technology for
> our musicmaking.

As long as the kids are getting some instruction in transposing (and
some practice), I certainly don't see any harm in what you're doing. If
it opens up some literature that would otherwise take up huge amounts of
rehearsal time, I think it makes perfect sense.

John Blegen