RE: [TPIN] Re: transposition - is it just just a lot ofnonsensetrumpetboasters

[David McNaughtan]

I can give you an ever stupider example than that: in one of Rechmaninov's piano concerti (think it is the 2nd) the outer movements are in Bb, the middle movement changes to A - for one note!

David

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----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ben and Karen" <kbrblinder at comcast.net>
To: "John Cather" <John at Cathermusic.com>, tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Received: 17.02.2008 15:03:45
Subject: RE: [TPIN] Re: transposition - is it just just a lot ofnonsensetrumpetboasters


>John,

>I agree with you, but I always did wonder why certain mid-movement
>transposition changes pop up every now and then.  For example, in Sibelius'
>Karelia Suite, the first two movements are for trumpet in F, the first half
>of the third is also for trumpet in F, and then it switches to trumpet in E!
>For the life of me, this does not make sense.  (For the record, we're
>playing this for an upcoming concert; I'm playing the entire piece on a Bb,
>not a C, and the trumpet section sound fits nicely with the rest of the
>orchestra.)  Maybe if the third movement was for trumpet in E in its
>entirety or if the movement had a major thematic change that made a
>transposition change necessary, but to switch in mid-movement when the theme
>is relatively constant?  No sense at all.

>Ben
>kbrblinder at comcast.net