[Trombone-l] Bb Bass clef

Raymond Horton rayhorton at insightbb.com
Fri Dec 8 13:29:42 CST 2006


That is just ignorance on the arranger's part.  No "world" anything, 
except dumbness. 

RBH

Thomas Cox wrote:
> Speaking of Bb bass clef...I was playing a brass ensemble arrangement  
> of Polovetsian Dances once last year.  I can't remember who the  
> arranger or publisher was now...but I was playing 2nd trombone, which  
> doubles on euph for a couple of passages...
>
> Anyway...when it was marked Trombone, it was written normally, at  
> concert pitch, but whenever it switched to Euph, it was in B-flat  
> bass clef!  This was pretty maddening, so I went and Finale-ized the  
> euph parts in concert pitch...but alas, we only played it in that one  
> rehearsal.
>
> Tommy
>
> Thomas B. Cox
> Graduate Teaching Assistant
> UGA Music Education/Trombone
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