<br>Hi Myke,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Michael Scott Cuthbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cuthbert@mit.edu">cuthbert@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Even the B-flat clarinet often will choose to be an A# clarinet when the orchestra is in 5, 6, or 7 sharps. </blockquote><div><br>This wouldn't be a problem, since the transposition is related to how you want to see it on the page, not to the name of the instrument. B-flat transposition would be 1 diatonic 2 chromatic (C->B; c->b->b-flat), A-sharp transposition would be 2 diatonic 2 chromatic (C->B->A; c->b->a#). Similarly for D-flat/C# piccolo.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> And in pieces for band, learning ensembles, etc., individual notes will be written enharmonically. So that a concert-pitch passage, C, D, D#, E#, F# might be written as D, E, F, G, Ab so as to avoid needing using double sharps or augmented intervals. Notating the score in written pitch is the better way to avoid this problem. </blockquote>
<div><br>This is a good point, but can also be handled by a constant transposition system. The enharmonic spelling would be stored in the sounding-pitch spellings, rather than changed afterwards once the written notes are calculated. In other words the written pitches<br>
D E F G Ab<br>are represented in concert pitch as:<br> C D Eb F Gb<br>and not as<br> C D D# E# F#<br><br><br>-=+Craig<br><br></div></div>