Posted by francais on April 25, 2003 at 15:25:36:
In Reply to: French bass clef parts posted by dave on April 25, 2003 at 12:25:54:
I believe this comes from historical practice with french bass brass writing. I think Clifford Bevan explained, in regard to the serpent in C, that French preference was to write bass brass parts for Bb instruments, even though a C instrument may be performing it. My guess is historical French compositional/performance preference caused the funky transposition even though it is in Bass Clef with the same key signature. ~ franc