Tim Reeves wrote: > > Nothing odd about it at all. I disagree, but we'll get to that in a moment.
> It would be odd if a horn part in C or E, etc. had any key signature at all. Why? Every other instrument has a key signature appropriate to the transposition in use at the current time. Why should horn and trumpet be the sole exceptions here? Certainly in 20th Century music, we expect every part to have an appropriate key signature (even horn in F), unless the music is not based on a key signature. The Ninth Symphony does not fall into that category. The alternative is to fill the music with accidentals, which is what has been done here. That is odd. > Clarinet and trumpet are similar situations, but they didn't use crooks, > they just had longer or shorter instruments for different keys. > Often orchestral trumpet players will play a C trumpet, rather than the > standard B flat trumpet, and clarinet players sometimes play A clarinets > and E flat clarinets, rather than the standard B flat clarinet. I've been a pianist for 45 years and a clarinetist for 40, so I am comfortably aware of transposition issues, but what you're saying doesn't explain the issues I pointed out. If a piece is in concert D and I am asked to play it on my Bb clarinet, my music should have a key signature of E. If I am asked to shift to an A clarinet, the key signature of the music should shift to F. That rule has not been followed in the Dvorak. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
