[Trombone-l] alto trombone question

[Jason Smith]

I have recently purchased and am struggling to learn
the alto trombone.  I bought a copy of L Mozart's
concerto and am trying to learn.  My question is this 
Why is alto trombone music not written transposed like
so that the positions correspond to the notes on tenor
rather than learn a whole new set of notes and
positions.  To me it would seem to facilitate
switching back and forth, tuning tendencies would
correspond to the same position on the harmonic series
etc.  I entered the music into finale but in bass
clef,  did a quick transposition and now I can
actually come close to playing rather than trying to
learn a who new set of positions?


 
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