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Transpose in partiture?

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-11-22 18:24

Hi

I'm transcribing a piece for three clarinets/bass clarinets (each player plays both) plus violin, cello and contrabass. I'm writing it as a partiture and I'll make the parts later.
Should I write the clarinet parts already in the transposition in the partiture?
I already started to do it with the transposition. Should it be a problem for a person with a lot of experience reading partitures to read it with the transposition?

Thanks very much and best wishes.

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Re: Transpose in partiture?

Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-11-22 19:34

Most orchestral scores, and every band score so far as I know, show the instruments at their written pitch. Conductors are perfectly used to this.

However, some orchestral scores show concert pitch, though octave-transposed instruments like the piccolo and contrabass will probably still be at written pitch.

If you use notation software, rather than pencil and paper, this shouldn't be an issue; the software should let you display and print it either way.

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To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.

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Re: Transpose in partiture?

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-11-23 03:08

OK thank you very much david.

For a couple of reasons I'm using a pencil and paper and not a computer software. I'll write the clarinet parts transposed.

Thanks.

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