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Flute is as written, while piccolo sounds one octave above written, correct?
So, the first half of the bar, the picc would sound two octaves above the flute, and in the second half of the bar, the picc would sound one octave above?
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I'm actually finding your questions helpful. I have an orchestration handbook that talks about a number of instruments that play different notes than what is written. Now for a VI you play what you want to hear. But if you were going to orchestrate for say an Eb flute, is it better to write the actual notes they play, even though it doesn't sound right as written, or the notes you want to hear and let the player transpose as they go along? This is something I don't quite understand as I only play a little piano and sing.
But if you were going to orchestrate for say an Eb flute, is it better to write the actual notes they play, even though it doesn't sound right as written, or the notes you want to hear and let the player transpose as they go along?
Just wanted to say to OP that I find you ask great questions! It shows you care about the craft of musicianship beyond samples.I'm actually finding your questions helpful. I have an orchestration handbook...
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true....but surely we are here to help no, and perhaps a post like this would lead to the OP learning something he can't from Google and Wikipedia ?
Or the part where 1.) Wikipedia can be dead wrong. How a score is written in 1800 is kind of irrelevant if the people who would play your music have a different preference.
In conductors' scores and other full scores, music for transposing instruments is generally written in transposed form, just as in the players' parts. Some composers from the beginning of the 20th century onward have written orchestral scores entirely in concert pitch, e.g. the score of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D♭.
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I like that you think google "filters" bad Wikipedia articles.
Why do you try to misread what i've written???
I have not written that Google filters Wikipedia articles. Please read more carefully and don't start trolling
And yes, i know that sometimes there are bad Wiki articles. And that Google filters.
Starting a sentence with "and" makes it appear as if you meant a comma, not a period, between those two lines.