No need to get the books early - especially since there is roughly twice as much material in the book as you will actually use in the performance. If you can sight-read material in the "Intermediate" book, then you can sight-read the Tuba 2 parts. Work through your favorite method books (I prefer Rubank's). So, Tuba Christmas music is available in "bass clef" (at concert pitch) and "treble clef" (transposed appropriately - for a euphonium it's transposed up a ninth an octave to get it to treble clef and one more step to move the euphonium's Bb to written C)īeen there, done that. The idea is that any brass player can pick up any brass instrument and read the music, which has been appropriately transposed so that it sounds correctly.Įlsewhere, tubas and euphoniums generally (note the weasel word) read music written at "concert pitch" - what you see is what you get. This is used (among other places) in British Brass Band and Salvation Army traditions. There is music written in treble clef and transposed so that the open bugle of a brass instrument is WRITTEN as (middle)C, G, C, E, G. I am another returnee after a 40-year absence and the larger pages and notes help.) (I would also recommend you get the large print. The ordering site is " target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank". I also play Eb tuba, for which I have both the treble and bass clef books, but I find the bass clef book to be easier to deal with since everything else I play on the tuba (albeit an Eb) is bass clef. I play treble clef euphonium so I have that book which has two euphonium parts. The reference to Eb, Salvation Army, British Brass Band is that they usually play treble clef music so the tuba part is presented in treble clef with appropriate changes in the flats and sharps to make it work. The treble clef book is for euphonium/baritone players who read treble clef. But I won't digress to tell you that I am just rocketing through "Essential Elements." Still.) How could I get this music early? Presumably by contacting an organizer, if they are not all back into their suspended animation pods or equivalent. Geez can it really be that long ago? I have to do the math each time to convince myself. (Recall I'm the chap who hasn't played in 40 years. Well, if I get started now, I might be ready for TubaChristmas 2011. Q2: That info bit states that we get the music the day of at registration. Q1: What's a treble clef Bb? Or treble clef tubas for that matter? I've heard of such but how does that work when we all play on the bass clef? (Last I looked.) It can't be practical to play treble clef with a tuba so are we pretending the treble clef is bass? (Like you could do with an Eb tuba & trumpet music I suppose.) Or is the music in a compatible octave? Or is it to be transposed? What gives? Also available (treble clef tubas, Eb/Bb, Salvation Army, British Brass Band players) #Carols for a merry tubachristmas pdf viewer registration#MUSIC: CAROLS FOR A MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS is available at registration for $18.00, (bass clef-C, four part score form) & (treble clef-Bb, two upper parts). I'm already planning to have friends attend on a mystery venue basis. So imagine my little bit of glee when I realized what it was and that my burg, Vancouver, has one. Thought that might just be a Phoenix thing or some such. Wikipedia Tuba led me to something I vaguely heard about on this site: TubaChristmas. There are a couple of questions here but first some backstory.
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