Posted by Keating Johnson on September 14, 2000 at 23:49:40:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Romeo and Juliet(?) posted by Never trust Kalmus on September 14, 2000 at 21:05:44:
Kalmus, and I don't really mean to defend them, is not a publisher. They re-print any music that is public domain--the copyright has long since run out. They take old German, French, Italian and British publications and simply re-print them with all the original errors. Now you can buy scholarly editions of say Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak etc., but the old engraved parts are simply off-set copied by Kalmus. As to illogical clefs I have to laugh. First trombone parts were, are still in alto clef for the alto trombone up to the mid-19th century. 2nd tbn, tenor parts, were always in tenor clef. Bassoonists and cellists still have much of their music in tenor clef in modern tunes--Bernstein, Barber, Corigliano etc. That is the norm, clefs are normal and logical for those players so that they can avoid ledger lines. Look at a score some time, these are the normal clefs, like viola mostly in alto clef ( in French "Alto", German Bratsche, English Viola) with some treble clef. Viola players find treble and bass totally illogical.