On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Josiah Boothby <josi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When we switch over to valves, we no longer match the transposition of >> the instrument to the key of the music, so it's only natural for other >> key signatures to appear. To continue the tradition of valveless horns, >> one would rather have to consider every valve press to be a change of >> crooks that alters the transposition of the instrument, and then write >> for this transposition until it's time for the next valve press. > > That would be hilarious. I would pay you twenty-five cents to arrange > the horn parts to, say, Tristan und Isolde so that each new fingering > is notated as a crook change. I'd pay fifty cents if it was actually > legible.
Wagner sometimes got close to this. Look at the first horn part to Lohengrin. Especially the beginning of act 3: http://imslp.org/wiki/Lohengrin,_WWV_75_(Wagner,_Richard). It's silly. -----Jay _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
