[Trombone-l] "Old Newbie" question....

[Chris Tune]

This web site is pretty good, but it seems to imply that certain countries 
"universally, and without equivocation", always teach different note naming 
conventions--Is this the impression of our list members?  Do they always 
teach B as being Bb (English pitch) and H as being B natural in Germany? 
Does fixed do rule the universe if I go to France, Italy, Spain or Portugal?

So, in that case I would not even call a C, a C (or is it A?)--ever, in the 
"latinate countries"? . . .or maybe very rarely?.  Rather I'd call C, "Do" 
and D, "Re" and so forth and that is really the way most would learn it? 
Maybe so. . I'm looking at the Brahms Four Symphonies in Deutsche 
Grammophone release and the French has "ut", "re", "fa" and "mi".  English 
translates as "C", "D", "F" and "E" (Sym 1 = C minor, Sym 2 = D major, Sym 3 
= F major, Sym 4 = E minor)

Italian looks like "do", "re", "fa" and "mi".  So, that looks pretty solidly 
in the fixed do idiom. Maybe there is something to this?

Or are these more the "traditional", old-fashioned methods (DG is a pretty 
old fashioned label--but I really, really like their stuff) that are not 
usually taught these days?  It's hard to imagine this level of fragmentation 
in the Internet-Connected musical world.  This set of Vienna Phil / 
Bernstein Brahms 4 are really nice.

Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Carr" <georgecarr at gmail.com>
To: "Mike Irwin" <theimpalakid at gmail.com>
Cc: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] "Old Newbie" question....


>> But I have never seen or heard of an alto clef.  Maybe an alto singer 
>> named
>> Cliff, but not an alto clef.
>>
>> Enlighten me, o wise ones.... what in the blue blazes is alto clef?
>
> Try this:
> http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory1.htm
>
> George
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