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Just Say “No” to Transposed Parts

PUBLISHED: February 24, 2011, John Ericson

Transposed parts; younger students love them, but on the whole they are a crutch. One of the reasons they are used so often is because students have either had only a limited number of lessons or not enough transposition practice in the lessons they have had. Another reason is the collection of all four Mozart [...]

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Ultimate Horn Technique and Ultimate Low Horn Arriving This Week

PUBLISHED: February 13, 2011, John Ericson

To make it official, I have had a push on for some time toward the completion of two new publications, Ultimate Horn Technique and Ultimate Low Horn, and they went to the printer on Friday. They have already been added to the sales page and sample pages are online as well. New books? On what [...]

Horn in A in Italian ‘Bel Canto’ Opera: Rossini’s Semiramide

PUBLISHED: January 12, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In “Sometimes Up is Down” I spelled out some pitfalls in performing Italian operatic repertoire. For Horn in A: The basic “A-horn” rule-of-thumb for the 3rd hornist is this: If your “up” transposition puts your sounding pitches above the 1st horn, you most likely need to invert the interval transposition to sound below the 1st [...]

Tips on Surviving Very Long Concerts

PUBLISHED: December 1, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Odds are that if you were to play one opera in your life, it would most likely be Carmen. When recently playing principal in Arizona Opera’s Carmen production, I was reminded of how many times I have played this opera and the unique challenges it has for horn players. For a newcomer playing opera, the [...]

NHR: What is up with Baritone Treble Clef Parts?

PUBLISHED: December 19, 2009, John Ericson

We get questions that are not always horn related and in the fall I had a question about baritone treble clef parts. I believe the person asking the question was not a brass player and perhaps had no decent methods class as well. I started off by answering, Those parts are different ways to notate [...]

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I’m in Music Education – Why Do I Need to Know Transposition?

PUBLISHED: October 22, 2009, Bruce Hembd
Uh horns? That E-flat you have there? ...uhm wait... do re fa sol la ti ... the F? No wait... is it a C?

The sentiment behind the question presented in the title is that only performance majors pursuing a career in orchestral playing need to worry about transposition. Orchestral repertoire demands the ability to transpose at sight virtually anything that is put on the stand. For music education majors who will be teaching school children this skill is [...]

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French Horn Transposition Chart

PUBLISHED: October 20, 2008, Bruce Hembd
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A complete reference. Transposition Chart (PDF) Over the past few months, I have been posting various transposition tricks, including how to transpose: A and A-flat in Italian opera Concert-pitch bass clef Alto clef “Old” versus “new” notation There are still a few more tricks to go, but this particular post is dedicated to a complete [...]

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