Klarinet Archive - Posting 000409.txt from 2004/01

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stupid bass clef bass clarinet question!
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:00:35 -0500

Lelia, I certainly can't speak for all conductors, but I hate seeing scores
fully in concert pitch. Since I teach band at the grade school level but also
have high school student experience, I need to immediately see what my students
see on their page - if there's a discrepancy, I can then transpose and figure
out the correct chord note needed. I can say with a great deal of certainty
that 95% of the scores we read from professional composers are transposed.
Scores in concert pitch may be easier for conductors to read, but the useful
information is then one step further away.

Cheers

Audrey

Georg Kühner wrote:

> 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.
> >

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