![]() If you want to play along with someone else, the key of your instrument matters. If it feeds your soul to play it, go for it. It would still work, for example, to play music published for Eb alto saxophone, violin, Bb trumpet, anything really. You could play music for a wide variety of instruments on your horn. So I wouldn't worry too much about the tone being wrong both English and French horns are celebrated for expressive, melodic tone, and often compared to the human voice. In this case, the English horn wasn't even the original instrument for which these melodies were composed it was voice. The tuba was ludicrously unsuited for the fleet-footed, scintillating scurries of staccato arpeggios, and as the violin was supposed to climb three octave scales to end in a triumphant scream, the tuba petered out as it approached the top of its range to end in a wheezy "poop!" But the whole thing demanded the utmost virtuosity, and it was jaw-dropping to watch such an absurdly inappropriate stunt be pulled off successfully. I once heard a performance of the last movement of Mendelssohn's violin concerto on tuba. Of course, you can also use these obstacles as challenges to inspire virtuosity or creativity. Differences in instrumental capabilities might make you re-imagine or re-interpret the source material, like when a marimba plays the sustained tones of "The Swan" using tremolo, or a piano replaces blue notes with minor 2nds. Is it "idiomatic" on the new instrument? Different constructions mean different fingerings, and passages that were written to fit well on on instrument might be awkward on another.Range is of course one of the considerations, but French horn has a very broad range and should cover English horn's (and a book of operatic melodies isn't likely to exploit the challenging extremes anyway). In this case, English horn and French horn have enough similarities that it's likely that everything is possible. Transcribing from bowed strings to winds will run into the fact that strings don't have to find places to take breaths. ![]() ![]() Going the opposite way might run into the fact that wind instruments can't play chords. Is it even possible on the new instrument? Transcribing from a woodwind to piano might run into the fact that piano can't sustain a prolonged note.Try it and see! Every time you "import" music from one instrument into another, you face a few questions: ![]()
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