That's how horn scores are written! Think of a score written for an Eb trumpet; it's "easier" to play it with an Eb trumpet instead of a Bb, since you don't have to transpose. The same principle applied back when valves hadn't been invented: horn parts were written in the key matching the piece and so the crook the player is supposed to use. Instead of transposing, the player simply changes crook, which is necessary because with a natural horn you can only play harmonic series. This traditional notation persisted even after the invention of valves until the end of the 19th century and in some cases was still used in the mid-20th century. The same convention was often adopted for trumpets: even Mahler often wrote for F trumpets. In conclusion, if you are a horn or trumpet player and want to play certain repertoires, you need to be able to read in any key!
Originally it was written for its “real notes” this piece was written for natural horn which does not have valves, so it can only play the notes in the harmonic series without hand manipulation. In order to change keys we would have to change out parts of the instrument called crooks. For this on a natural horn a person would just put in a D crook and go for it. Modern horns really have just lots of sets of attached crooks we can access by pressing the valves. The side effect of this evolution is that in order to play older music written for natural horn we have to transpose (for horn in D we would play everything down a minor third from written, although this score seems to have the solo part also written down the octave)
@@kathryncowan4752the part in the video is indeed in concert pitch, notice how at the end of the first movement the horn plays a D, the same as the strings
bro this goes crazy
heel fijn dit stuk zo! ik ga hem volgend jaar spelen, maar nu vast mee beginnen... fijn om een handleiding bij dit stuk te hebben!
One of my favorite pieces to play. But not a fan of the vibrato even though the fantastic Bauman doesn't use such a wide one here. ❤
They wrote it in real notes the horn score. Why? It's such a stupid udea
That's how horn scores are written! Think of a score written for an Eb trumpet; it's "easier" to play it with an Eb trumpet instead of a Bb, since you don't have to transpose. The same principle applied back when valves hadn't been invented: horn parts were written in the key matching the piece and so the crook the player is supposed to use. Instead of transposing, the player simply changes crook, which is necessary because with a natural horn you can only play harmonic series. This traditional notation persisted even after the invention of valves until the end of the 19th century and in some cases was still used in the mid-20th century. The same convention was often adopted for trumpets: even Mahler often wrote for F trumpets. In conclusion, if you are a horn or trumpet player and want to play certain repertoires, you need to be able to read in any key!
Originally it was written for its “real notes” this piece was written for natural horn which does not have valves, so it can only play the notes in the harmonic series without hand manipulation. In order to change keys we would have to change out parts of the instrument called crooks. For this on a natural horn a person would just put in a D crook and go for it. Modern horns really have just lots of sets of attached crooks we can access by pressing the valves. The side effect of this evolution is that in order to play older music written for natural horn we have to transpose (for horn in D we would play everything down a minor third from written, although this score seems to have the solo part also written down the octave)
@@kathryncowan4752the part in the video is indeed in concert pitch, notice how at the end of the first movement the horn plays a D, the same as the strings