Re: [TPIN] Re: transposition - is it just just a lot of nonsensetrumpet boasters

[David McNaughtan]

That is a sweeping statement that simply ain't true. Apart from the fact that Handel's D parts were written at concert pitch, there are a few points in the romantic literature where differing crooks are required but not enough time is allowed to change - Wagner or Wolf e.g. In addition, some composers went on writing for instruments long after they were no longer in use - Sibelius for the F trumpet, e.g.

Apart from that, I cannot imagine that players of the past were any different to those of today - if they had and alternative instrument which made the part easier or more secure, then they played on that, just as we use 4 valve Eb instruments sometimes (incidentally another reason for learning transposition).
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----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Joel Eymard" <bulgroz at clara.co.uk>
To: "Rod Brawn" <r_brawn at sympatico.ca>
Received: 17.02.2008 00:32:26
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Re: transposition - is it just just a lot of nonsensetrumpet	boasters


>No, they wrote for existing instruments, either natural in C, D, E, 
>....or, at the end of the century, for chromatic trumpet in F which was 
>widely used in Europe. Trumpet players had never to transpose
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