Re: Notation of french horn

[Jonas Olson]

Interesting to see the variations that occur.

fre 2012-04-27 klockan 11:50 -0700 skrev Tim Reeves:
> Mozart horn concerto in D major (1791) - originally played on a
> natural horn with a D crook, so written with no key signature - the
> modern player playing on an F horn simply (!) transposes the part down
> a minor third as he plays it. Exception is to transpose the part for
> him, so write it out for horn in F. Then the key signature is two
> sharps (for the horn - one sharp for everyone else!)

This is beside the main point, but just so I don't misunderstand
something. Music in D major would have tree sharps for an instrument in
F and two sharps for non-transposing instruments, wouldn't it?

Jonas