:D.........sorry, I just like the piece. (Honour Band piece we performed at the International Music Camp)............. A horn and euph duet should sound nice, good luck!Kevin
Looking for duet for french horn and euphonium
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Playing from bass clef concert would be very unusual for most horn players.
However there would be a potential compromise making it possible for you to play horn duets:
If the horn player reads his/hers part as if written for Eb horn (a very common transposition), then you can add 3 flats to your part and read it octave up, pretending it were written in bass clef concert. It may be discussed whether reading an octave up is a transposition. If it is, then it is the easiest transposition you will meet aside from reading an octave down.
If you can read treble clef Bb, then any trumpet, cornet, euph, or even clarinet duet would be possible. Hornplayers training for a classical career shall be able to read, what they call the "Bb basso" transposition. Only that transposition will take the horn down in a range, where it does not always project optimally, if the part is not written fairly high up the staff (a sample of good writing for Bb basso horn is the opening of Brahms’ piano concerto in Bb).
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
However there would be a potential compromise making it possible for you to play horn duets:
If the horn player reads his/hers part as if written for Eb horn (a very common transposition), then you can add 3 flats to your part and read it octave up, pretending it were written in bass clef concert. It may be discussed whether reading an octave up is a transposition. If it is, then it is the easiest transposition you will meet aside from reading an octave down.
If you can read treble clef Bb, then any trumpet, cornet, euph, or even clarinet duet would be possible. Hornplayers training for a classical career shall be able to read, what they call the "Bb basso" transposition. Only that transposition will take the horn down in a range, where it does not always project optimally, if the part is not written fairly high up the staff (a sample of good writing for Bb basso horn is the opening of Brahms’ piano concerto in Bb).
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre