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Author: Rusty
Date: 2009-07-28 22:13
I play a clarinet, violin and a tenor sax and my wife a piano and alto sax. We like to hunt up nice and relatively easy pieces of music and play together, perhaps in harmony.
I put the sheet music into Noteworthy Composer and print it out. That`s when the" fun" starts. Her alto sax puts the notes out 3 semi tones up and if I play say my clarinet I`m 2 semies down. So I have to transpose one or both pieces. But sometimes doing this will produce a key sig that`s close to impossible like 6 flats for my violin or 5 sharps for my wife`s alto which she would find difficult. Or one of us is too high up or too low.
Anyway I`m not looking for an easy way out I`m expressing my admiration for composers. Not only in an orchestra does each type of instrument play different music but it has to be composed in a key that is both playable and in tune with the rest of the orchestra. What a job!
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