Timeline for Can I play an English horn part with a viola?
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| Oct 14, 2022 at 22:15 | comment | added | Soruk | Give the music and viola to a violinist! The strings of a viola are pitched a perfect fifth below that of a violin (however, viola music is written in concert pitch so it is not considered a transposing instrument, though a violinist might feel otherwise on his first attempt at playing a viola!) | |
| May 3, 2018 at 14:28 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @jjmusicnotes or the violist could "think" it's in alto clef and, combined with the transposition, be off by a fourth :-) | |
| May 3, 2018 at 12:07 | comment | added | jjmusicnotes | Just want to point out that competent violists can play treble clef without issue, and transposing down a fifth is a pretty straightforward practice. Given enough notice, the violist could just sketch out the notes on the part. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 4:13 | history | edited | Richard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2018 at 3:44 | history | answered | Richard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |