Klarinet Archive - Posting 000404.txt from 2004/01

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Stupid bass clef bass clarinet question!
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:43:15 -0500

I always write transposed scores.

Best Georg
>
> Apropos of Dan Leeson's story about a composer who sent in a concert pitch
> score and expected the publisher to transpose the parts (which the
> publisher did not do), Patricia A. Smith wrote:
>>> What a LAZY composer. I was always told when
>>> arranging AND composing to make SURE I transposed
>>> the parts properly IN THE SCORE!
>
> Most people who play transposing instruments would probably join you in
> this sentiment. All together now: Roll eyes and groan, "Duh!" But,
> believe it or not, on the composers' chat forum at the Sibelius Music
> website, we've had arguments about whether to submit scores in concert
> pitch or transposed.
>
> A number of the composers (mostly amateurs, like me) believe that it's
> old-fashioned to publish transposed full orchestra or full band scores.
> They're convinced that the modern trend is to submit the score in concert
> pitch throughout, because it's easier to read. Some of them evidently
> extrapolate this debatable assertion incorrectly to mean that we should
> *also* turn in the *parts* at concert pitch, for the sake of consistency.
> This is a genuine misunderstanding, not simple laziness, since the computer
> program we use will re-format back and forth between a concert pitch score
> and a transposing score with a click of the mouse. Even if the composer is
> utterly clueless about such things, it's no trouble at all to turn in the
> full score at concert pitch and the parts in transposed pitch. Apparently,
> some of the youngest composition students are simply ignorant, since some
> have asked, "What is a transposing instrument?" Some don't play
> instruments, or play nothing but piano. However, several of the more
> experienced, adult composers, who do play instruments, assume it's the
> prospective conductors reading the scores online who are too ignorant or
> too lazy to understand a transposed score!
>
> Since I'm not persuaded that transposed full scores are really "out" (What
> do the conductors in the group have to say about that?), I transpose not
> only the parts but also the full score, so that someone reading it online
> will *know* that I'm aware of transposing instruments and that I've
> transposed the parts. I wouldn't like to start downloading a large score
> and discover too late, as it printed out, that many of the parts have to be
> edited and re-copied, and I assume other people wouldn't be thrilled,
> either!
>
> Lelia Loban
> E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
> Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
> http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban
>
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