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Re: Bass cleff v Treble clef

To: "Brass Band" <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bass cleff v Treble clef
From: "Keith Rowland" <kprowland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:50:07 -0000
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Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bill

Speaking for SA brass band music in the UK, you will only find the Bass
Trombone scored in bass clef.  Everything else will be in treble.  I am
pretty sure that non-SA music published for brass band is normally scored
similarly.  You will come across bass clef euphonium, trombone and bass
parts when playing music that was orginally scored for wind and military
bands or orchestral groups.

I guess, however, that music for brass band does retain a musical uniqueness
in it's scoring.  My wife who was trained orchestrally and who has taught
music for the last 17 years has always found the constant treble clef
scoring in brass band music perplexing as she maintains that it doesn't make
musical sense not to use a range of clefs depending on the pitch of the
instrument and notes it can produce.  She is, of course, right, but then she
is not a brass band player!

Keith
SA-Clacton, England


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