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 Re: Most Common Practice for B Major
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2013-11-27 06:37

Db Major is a common key in band music for flutes, piccolos, oboes, trombones, euphoniums, tubas, string basses and tuned percussion. All the Bb, Eb and F pitched instruments don't have such a tough time.

I don't know why the concert band version of Elgar's 'Nimrod' has been dropped down from the original Concert Eb Major to Db Major when Eb is a decent key for concert bands to play in, but that's one of those annoying things common with concert/military band writing.

I heard moanings from some lower order clarinets when I did a concert band arrangement of 'Getting Sentimental Over You' for solo trombone in the key of D Major (as played by Tommy Dorsey) - there was all this 'Four sharps? FOUR SHARPS?' going on when they only had offbeat crotchets and minims or semibreves to play! Just as well they didn't play alto or bari sax as the soli in the middle was in five sharps and had quavers in it!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

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