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 Re: Transposition preferences? - question to clarinet players from a composer
Author: EEBaum 
Date:   2011-12-13 16:02

Not option #2. If it's mostly stepwise motion, seeing G and G# is distracting.

1 and 3 are more or less equal. 3 sounds a bit friendlier to read. Clarinetists are used to reading keys that aren't the original ones written. We know that, due to transposition, that Eb may actually be a D# (or, before transposition, a C#) based on the theory.

Don't use key signatures. They're outmoded, and they're ESPECIALLY unhelpful if, as you suggest, they don't match the key you're actually in. Put the piece in "Open Key / Atonal" and mark the accidentals.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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CL 2011-12-13 16:36 
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