Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 2002/04

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] One more transposing technique
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:38:21 -0500

I've heard over the years that French horn players traditionally use clefs
(usually moveable C clefs) to handle all the transpositions they need to do.
Could the "official" approach you've described from your Curtis experience
have been influenced by Mason Jones (former Philadelphia Orchestra principal
horn), who was very involved at Curtis for many, many years (maybe into the
years when you were there)?

The "trick" band directors learn to transcribe trombone/baritone horn/cello
parts for their alto and baritone sax players is essentially the same one -
substitute a treble clef and add three sharps. It solved a problem and saved
labor back when any transcribing you did had to be done by hand.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Osborn [mailto:feanor33@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:35 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] One more transposing technique
>
>
> While at the Curtis Institute of Music, in the ear training classes, they
> taught us all how to transpose. Of course for those of us who
> already knew,
> it was boring, but I think it was good for the violinists, flutists, and
> pianists, etc. to learn how.
>
> They had an excellent technique for learning this: reading
> different clefs.
> For example, if you have a tenor clef part - just replace it with
> a treble
> clef, and viola!, instant transposition for your Bb clarinet. If you
> would like to play a Viola part, just put a Bass clef where the Alto Clef
> is (then the Cs become Ds), and more instant transposition for your Bb
> clarinet. Of course you need to change the key signature, and
> keep in mind
> accidentals. This also has less practical applications for
> standart Treble
> Clef clarinet transpositions: to make a C clarinet part into a Bb
> clarinet
> part with clefs means having to reading Alto Clef, to turn it into an A
> clarinet part means reading in Bass Clef, and going from A part to Bb
> clarinet means reading Tenor Clef.
>
> Of course at Curtis, I used my transposition skill to learn how to read
> clefs (like Baritone and Mezzo-Soprano Clef - UGH!)
> Personally, I think it's easier to just see it in a different key, but if
> you already read clefs well, but can't transpose, then this may
> work for you.
>
> Sean
>
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>
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