It's not easy for musicians, either.I'm a cellist and the only way to avoid panic when changing from the bass to the treble clef, is to transpose and practice until my fingers have a permanent groove from the strings.
I hope it was helpful. The role is, that for example a bassoon, when it plays very high, the bass clef is just not very pretty to look at, because it would be way over the fifth clef. Could have mentioned that.🙌🏻
I'm curious about why scores using F Trumpets and F Horns write those instruments with no key signature. For example, the Wagner's Vorspiel in Parsifal starts in A-flat, and the instruments at concert pitch indicate their key as such, the B-flat instruments are written in their key of B-flat, and the cor anglais (in F) is in E-flat. Even when the concert key changes, the horns and trumpets still have no key signature. It seems to be a convention followed nearly universally in older music. (I don't have access to many modern scores.) Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Brucker all follow this convention. I would like to understand those parts from the performers' perspectives; do they not normally have key signatures?
The video is awesome!!! I'm just getting familiar with orchestral scores and was confused with transposed instruments 😂 Your explanation resolves all my confusion with them p.s. in 3:37 "Instrument in d" should be "instrument in d flat" right?
@@johnbjorgenson5481 yes, it is something every aspiring conductor strives to achieve. It’s called developing your “inner ear”. Being able to read the music and hearing it in your head without a pitched source/reference.
@@taylorbrownfield2073how is that possible in a 30 stave score with multiple transposing instruments. Your eyes can’t intake all that in real time can they
As a horn player, learned very early to use clefs to transport, as it's common to have different transpositions even within a single movement!
One thing worth mentioning: Wehn talking to a musician with transposing instrument, talk in his key and not concert pitch. Thank you!
It's not easy for musicians, either.I'm a cellist and the only way to avoid panic when changing from the bass to the treble clef, is to transpose and practice until my fingers have a permanent groove from the strings.
Now I understand more the role of clefs.
I hope it was helpful. The role is, that for example a bassoon, when it plays very high, the bass clef is just not very pretty to look at, because it would be way over the fifth clef. Could have mentioned that.🙌🏻
I'm curious about why scores using F Trumpets and F Horns write those instruments with no key signature. For example, the Wagner's Vorspiel in Parsifal starts in A-flat, and the instruments at concert pitch indicate their key as such, the B-flat instruments are written in their key of B-flat, and the cor anglais (in F) is in E-flat. Even when the concert key changes, the horns and trumpets still have no key signature. It seems to be a convention followed nearly universally in older music. (I don't have access to many modern scores.) Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Brucker all follow this convention. I would like to understand those parts from the performers' perspectives; do they not normally have key signatures?
The video is awesome!!! I'm just getting familiar with orchestral scores and was confused with transposed instruments 😂 Your explanation resolves all my confusion with them
p.s. in 3:37 "Instrument in d" should be "instrument in d flat" right?
So in order to be a conductor or at least a successful one, you have to instantly hear the work in your head as if it was playing in real life?
Yep!
@@taylorbrownfield2073wow I see.
I can compose in my head but looking at a score definitely doesn’t happen in real time. That’s too bad lol
@@johnbjorgenson5481 yes, it is something every aspiring conductor strives to achieve. It’s called developing your “inner ear”. Being able to read the music and hearing it in your head without a pitched source/reference.
@@taylorbrownfield2073how is that possible in a 30 stave score with multiple transposing instruments. Your eyes can’t intake all that in real time can they
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