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ESSENTIALS IN CONDUCTING

so as to give the highest voice to the clarinet and the lowest to the horn, the clarinet and horn parts would appear as shown in Fig. 2.

$\new PianoStaff << \new Staff { \key f \major \time 2/2 \relative c'' << { \mark \markup { \smaller "Fig 1" } c4 f c \times 2/3 { bes8 a g } f1 } \\ { a4 f f e | f1 } >> \bar "||" } \new Staff { \clef bass \key f \major \relative c' << { c4 c d \times 2/3 { c4 bes8 } | a1 } \\ { f4 a g c, | f1 } >> } >>$

$\new StaffGroup << \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \new Staff { \key g \major \time 2/2 \relative d'' { \mark \markup { \smaller "Fig 2" } d4 g^"Clarinet in B♭" d \times 2/3 { c8 b a } g1 \bar "||" } } \new Staff { \key c \major \relative c' { c4 e^"Horns in F" d g, c1 } } >>$

In order to make this information more specific, we add a table showing the keys of the original and transposed parts. The practical band man expresses the substance of this table tersely by saying, "subtract 3 sharps or 2 flats."

Original Key	Transposed Key	Kind of Instrument
C	D	B-flat
G	B-flat	A
D	F	A
A	C	A
E	G	A
B	D	A
F-sharp	A	A
C-sharp	E	A
F	G	B-flat
B-flat	C	B-flat
E-flat	F	B-flat
A-flat	B-flat	B-flat
D-flat	E-flat	B-flat
G-flat	A-flat	B-flat
	or	or
	A	A
C-flat	D-flat	B-flat

REASONS FOR TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTSThe principal reasons for the use of transposing instruments are: first, because certain sizes of instruments produce a better quality of tone than others (e.g., the B-flat clarinet sounds better than the C clarinet); and second, because

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