Re: Concert Pitch (a second try)

[Hans Aberg]

On 7 Apr 2009, at 18:37, <address@hidden> <address@hidden 
> wrote:

> > it is transposed twice in opposite
> > directions: first by the composer who writes the sheet music
>
> actually, the composer usually scribbles all the music in score at  
> pitch
> and leaves part copying (with appropraite transpositions) to a  
> specialist
> who has a good hand for the job (these days a computer).  It is a rare
> composer who can get away with putting his own scribble on the stand  
> of a
> union musician.

If I look at (handwritten) the beginning of Carl Orff's "Carmina  
Burana", he wrote it out with transpositions. Perhaps it varies.

  Hans