B-flat bass clef euphonium notation

[Mark]

Thus, the feeble-minded can have their transpositions, and the real musicians can see the real notes at concert pitch
Cheers,
Allen

Hmmm... In my world, every high-level musician and/or world famous conductor can read in 7 clefs, sight read any transposition and do all that in multiple staves. The ones who can't spend their time in the anonymous masses playing tutti parts in a local orchestra. (or, more likely, flipping burgers)

Hmmm... In the jazz and rock worlds there are plenty of musicians who can't read music at all. And, many of them make more money than anyone in your world.

[SplatterTone]

Now that it has come up, it would be a little interesting to see how the finances of Murray Perahia stack up those of Oscar Peterson.

[corbasse]

To me, there is an ENORMOUS difference between:

a) musicians who are willing and able to read any notation/transposition so they can play any tune in any key, or at least try.
b) musicians who don't read music, but are willing and able to play any tune in any key by ear, or at least try.
on the one side

and

c) musicians who only read "normal" notation and are proud of it,
on the other.

This concept of "normal", by the way, seems to depend a lot on where and when the musician was brought up and trained. It can consist of any sort of transposition/clef/tabulature or combination thereof. All too often these musicisians also annoyingly tend to percieve their way as the one and only correct and true path.


I have to admit it's not all about income, but I believe it's a lot harder to get anywhere with mentality c) without selling your soul as my fellow countryman depicted above

[LoyalTubist]

I can remember taking the Musical Content Examination for Public School Teachers for California many years ago and one of the "sample questions" went like this:

When an E-flat tuba player plays an E-flat concert scale, what key is he or she actually playing?
A. E-flat
B. C
C. D-flat
D. B-flat

And, looking at the back of the book, the answer was...

D-flat...

because the E-flat tuba is a transposing instrument!

[imperialbari]

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[LoyalTubist]

That wasn't my reply. That was the answer in the back of the book!!!!

[LoyalTubist]

I should also add that the question was written the same way it was written in the book, too. It was ambiguous from all sides.