Klarinet Archive - Posting 000649.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:58:32 -0500

You are right and wrong. The key signatures without accidentals
indicated are also key signatures, but are key signatures for C major.
Because a key signature has no indications about which notes are altered
in performance does not mean that such a thing is not a key signature.

Dan

Karl Krelove wrote:
> I'm looking at the scores that I happen to have handy for four of his
> symphonies (1, 5, 9 and 11) and the Age of Gold Ballet Suite. All of them
> are consistent - key signatures for everyone but the French horns, trumpets,
> and timpani.
>
> Karl Krelove
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:20 PM
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: Re: [kl] Key signatures
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>>I saw this some time ago in a Shostakovich score. The trumpets were also
>>written that way but the clarinets were in their usual transposed key.
>>
>>Gary
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>>At 10:47 AM 3/16/03, you wrote:
>>
>>>In the 18th century (and it extends up to today) French horns
>>
>>were written
>>
>>>that way; i.e., always in written C major with the accidentals specified.
>>>
>>>Dan
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