Author: Kat
Date: 2002-05-06 16:44
Diz,
It's true that it's hard to "turn off" the transposing. I play in a group which performs ethnic music for a dance company. I am the only person playing a transposing instrument. So, I read C parts all the time. I do find it difficult to stop transposing when I am in the same musical genre. When I teach students (from a classical perspective, since that's how I was trained), however, I have no problems. And when I first started reading C parts, I had the hardest time. In grad school, I remember having to work on some Rossini overture excerpt. Gosh, was I awful at the transposing! When I began playing other kinds of music, it was very difficult at first, and I stank at it. But like anything else, with practice and repetition, it does become easier.
I have yet to learn to read from a C part on an A clarinet, however!
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