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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:09:50 -0700
From: b~-2000.com (Robert Bonfiglio)
Subject: Re: Standard, vs. new notation

Standard notation has a great deal of flexibility without much effort. If
you read well, you can play up a 3rd by just reading a third above the
pitch. Horn players use intervals for transposition all the time.
Learning clefs will also make transposition possible.

Sight singing and dictation make it possible to hear the line in your head
before you play it. So let's say the tune is in Bb and you want a cross
harp sound, you could learn to read cross harp in G from notes and then
play in Bb by using an Eb harp just reading down a third from the written
pitch and pretending your using a C harp playing in G.

So learning how to read with a C harp in the key of G would cover all keys
if you could use intervals.

We used to solfege Bona in 7 clefs at Manhattan School of Music all the
time and the horn players and wind players did it by intervals from treble
and bass clef. Hundreds of them and they ALL knew how to do it!

Harmonically yours,

Robert bonfiglio

http://www.robertbonfiglio.com