Klarinet Archive - Posting 000594.txt from 1999/10

From: Anne C Benassi <acb@-----.is>
Subj: [kl] C transposition - correction
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:11:53 -0400

It hit me like a pie in the face on my way home from the grocery store
tonight that there is a non sequitur in my post of this morning. I was
trying to give a thumbnail sketch of the way that accidentals change in
the transposition process and said:

Double-flats you can just ignore: a double-flat just lowers the tone a
major second, which your transposition is simply undoing anyway.

Many of you have doubtless seen this error. It's true enough that if
one looks at isolated notes on a page, sees a Gbb and says, "What will
it be transposed up a step?" yes, it will be an unadorned G when all is
said and done. But when one is busy transposing a melodic line, one
hasn't the time to read a big chunk of it up a step (or in alto clef or
what-have-you), then switch back to treble clef and ignore the double
flat, and then go back again to reading up a step.

A more workable way to say it is, I think, that double flats remain
double flats with the exception of Ebb and Bbb, which become single
flats in the transposition process and are thus played as Fb and Cb,
respectively.

I hope this is clear and, above all, I hope it's finally correct !!
Please sing out if there's more nonsense that my morning coffee didn't
flush out. My apologies for the confusion. Anne

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