Josiah Boothby <josi...@gmail.com> writes: > You're not far off, actually, and Wagner did this for his horns and > trumpets (and Wagner tubas). He knew he was writing extraordinarily > difficult horn parts for players who were playing technologically new > instruments, and he knew that early adopters of the valves were very > accustomed to transposing. So not only did he end up eschewing key > signatures (they would only confuse the poor horn players!), but he > took advantage of our little mind games: writing for Horn in A or Bb > doesn't actually make the high notes easier for a valved horn, but > horn players seem less likely to choke on the high notes when they > don't have ledger lines to scare them.
How do you get a violist to play tremolo? Write "Solo" above the passage. Thank you, thank you, you are so kind. What a great audience. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
