Music Question

[infrogmation]

So when I call a tune in B-flat (for the horns), and the electric guitar player asks "What key is that for ME?" what do I tell him?

Is there a handy link to a chart of whatever this is about?

Comments

Re: Um, B-flat?

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links. The traditional New Orleans front line wind instruments of cornet/trumpet, clarinet, and trombone are all B-flat (or we consider ourselves to be). I've heard some classically trained musicians say things like "the trombone is actually pitched in C but is PLAYED in B-flat". Perhaps if I played with groups doing a different type of music I'd need to understand what that actually means. -- Your illiterate cyber-pal

What clef do you read (if any)?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of trombones as reading bass-clef parts written in C, but if you read treble clef I guess your part would be written in B-flat. In the latter case, if it's B-flat for you and all the other B-flat horns, then it's A-flat for all the C instruments.

A-sitting on a gate

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Well, the key it's in is C and the key it's played in is B-flat, but the name of the key that it's in is F-sharp and the name of the key is called D-blunt. But the instrument is scored H-round except that the key of the score is known as M-unnatural and the key of the score is played as X-dehydrated.