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Trumpet advice needed for Polanski's Chinatown
Trumpet advice needed for Polanski's Chinatown
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Andrew
481 posts
Aug 03, 2009
5:33 AM
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The text below is just copied from another forum, so forgive the curtness. Can anyone help?
I've been transcribing the theme tune of this movie. It's quite tricky, but it's basically C# minor.
Now my question is what key of trumpet would you expect to see the trumpet solo scored for?
I'm guessing C because, as far as I know, it would be very nasty on a Bb.
For the Bb you'd have a key sig of 6 sharps and it would be played in D# minor, but there's a chord in C# major where the trumpet plays a long E#, except that in D# major that would be an F##, which I think is more punishment than a composer would inflict on an instrumentalist (well, OK, it's not unknown). But it's possible that I don't have enough theory and I'm getting it all wrong.
So, failing a C trumpet, what other common key of trumpet is there that you'd expect to see?
(I'm assuming there are trumpeters among my readers!)
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Andrew
482 posts
Aug 03, 2009
7:41 AM
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Damn, I think I've hit upon the solution. DVDs play fast, so the music is probably a semitone sharper than as scored, so it was probably originally in C minor!
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jawbone
70 posts
Aug 03, 2009
8:47 PM
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Hey Andrew - I'm not sure what you are asking - are you trying to write for a B flat trumpet so that it matches the other music? All I know is, that to play along with other instruments, piano, guitar etc. the trumpet has to play one full tone higher. If the band is in E trumpet plays F sharp. If band is in A trumpet plays B etc. Not sure if this helps.
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Andrew
484 posts
Aug 04, 2009
12:16 AM
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yes, 6 sharps is F# (major, and D# minor). I knew about that.
I suppose my question, given my response about DVD speeds, had morphed into: -
"suppose someone who didn't know about trumpets scored a piece in C# minor and you were a trumpet player and they told you to write out the trumpet part. Which trumpet would you pick?" I suppose put like that, anyone would pick a C trumpet, but I don't know which trumpets are common, like I said. The A trumpet may be common, in which case it would be scored in E minor (relative minor of G major - one sharp), no problem.
But it's totally academic if the piece was originally in C minor, because a Bb trumpet would just be playing in D minor (relative minor of F major - one measly flat!)
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jawbone
73 posts
Aug 04, 2009
8:12 PM
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The B flat trumpet is the most common.
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