Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2019-09-28 07:38
With respect to Ruben's original post wondering if a publisher does not get around to transposing the real-note score for a transposing instrument, in reading "Prokofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935, Volume 1" there is mention of Prokofiev's adopting the practice of writing all parts in a score in C, to make it easier for the conductor. In Prokofiev's words, "transposition is shifted from the conductor to the copyist".
Elsewhere, Prokofiev expresses frustration when the copyist does not do his job, writing that he (Prokofiev) now has "to make sure that the copyist for the individual parts transposed them into the keys most familiar to the players in question".
According to what Prokofiev wrote, an example of the copyist not doing his job is when he transposed the clarinet parts of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony for Clarinet in Bb (E major) rather than Clarinet in A (F major), F major being a more familiar key.
There are other examples in Prokofiev's music where the copyist was clearly not aware of "the key most familiar to the player", and transposed the C parts in the score onto Bb clarinet by default. If we play those passages on the clarinet that makes the passages sound better, due to the passage now being in a more familiar key, in this case we are fulfilling the composer's wishes.
Simon
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