On January 11, 2015 8:06:55 PM "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:
So I assume the clarinet in A (which I'd missed) has a lower range than
the Bb?
Clarinets in Bb and A have the same written range, extending down to the E
below middle C. This note sounds as concert D on the Bb clarinet, and
concert C# on the A clarinet.
Whilst checking this, I noticed that you have no key sig: think \global
should still have a key sig of c \major, and then the clarinet part
should have \transpose a, c \global to get its correct signature for the
player?
The lack of a key signature is fairly standard practice for contemporary
music that is not organized around common practice tonality. E.g., the
opening section of The Rite of Spring has no key signatures for any
instruments, including the transposing ones. (The score is transposed, and
later sections that do have key signatures display transposed key
signatures in the transposing instruments. So the absence of key
signatures in the first section must be deliberate.)
hjh