Re: Score and parts template

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "James Harkins" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Score and parts template


> On January 11, 2015 8:06:55 PM "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > So I assume the clarinet in A (which I'd missed) has a lower range than 
> > the Bb?
>
> Clarinets in Bb and A have the same written range, extending down to the E 
> below middle C. This note sounds as concert D on the Bb clarinet, and 
> concert C# on the A clarinet.
>
> >  Whilst checking this, I noticed that you have no key sig: think \global 
> > should still have a key sig of c \major, and then the clarinet part 
> > should have \transpose a, c \global to get its correct signature for the 
> > player?
>
> The lack of a key signature is fairly standard practice for contemporary 
> music that is not organized around common practice tonality. E.g., the 
> opening section of The Rite of Spring has no key signatures for any 
> instruments, including the transposing ones. (The score is transposed, and 
> later sections that do have key signatures display transposed key 
> signatures in the transposing instruments. So the absence of key 
> signatures in the first section must be deliberate.)
>
> hjh


I believe that, as a tutorial template, it would be more useful to 
illustrate how to accommodate key signature indications with transposing 
instruments, since this remains the norm for most music.

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Phil Holmes