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Re: Re: Some advice please

In message <200302121037.43874.njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nigel Horne
<njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> Bass trombone is exactly the same in brass bands and
>> orchestras (both concert pitch in bass clef). Tenor
>> (and alto) clef crop up in orchestral trom parts,
>> but not in bass trom parts.
>
>That's nearly 100% true, but there is always the exception that proves the rule.
>See, for example, figure 13 of Gigues from Images by Debussy where
>the bass trombone is in tenor clef. It doesn't go that high so I don't know
>why he used the tenor clef there.

Luckily, if Steve is using the same edition as I have (I forget which),
it stays in bass clef throughout; other Mahler I've played (e.g. Mahler
5) doesn't. In fact, probably 1 in 10 or so of large-scale orchestral
works take the Bass Trom into Tenor clef. Clefs don't always make any
sense to the modern eye - why on Earth did Dvorak write his 2nd Trombone
parts (for a Tenor instrument) in Alto clef? And then there was the time
I found myself playing an Alto and Mezzo-Soprano clef part on a G Bass
Trombone... guaranteed to induce a short-circuit!

Dave

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