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Re: Re: Royal Fireworks

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Subject: Re: [BRASS-BAND:5686] Re: Royal Fireworks
From: John Gray <johnegry@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:33:12 -0800 (PST)
In-reply-to: <09cc01c2ed69$3af6d880$b0442cd8@gdrhp01>

Yes, BB music is usually written in (concert) flats,
occasionally up to the natural key, two sharps for the
Bflat inst.

Since, as someone writes below, orchestras contain
widely different inst I don't see anything wrong with
changing key slightly (a semitone) to reduce the
number of mistakes in the brass.  Anyway there were
several pitches around in Europe before A=440 became
standard years ago, so who's to say the exact pitch of
the original?

Trumpets used to often have an "A" key to make life
easier playing in sharps.  Which however depended on
Composer or Arranger being obliging enough to write
for same.  And older Fr Horn parts can be in every key
under the sun owing to the use of "crooks" to achieve
varying natural harmonics. And sometime (valved, F) Fr
Horn parts are written in the natural key by some
untrusting person and all the accidentals marked in
individual bars . . .

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