These instruments are constructed an octave shorter and in some situations have an advantage-and they are certainly easier to play. The players of these instruments were horn players.īut they were not the only type of valved brass instrument in the alto range notated in E-flat also we have E-flat alto (tenor) horns in the mix of things. But with the development of valved brass instruments, valved horns were being crooked in E-flat, the same pitch length as an E-flat natural horn. As are, for example, the Mozart horn concertos, the source of the example above.
If it is old enough music, pretty much anything that you run into from before 1850, it is in E-flat because it is for natural horn.
They could be in E-flat for a number of reasons. In this example, the first note is a written G in Eb, you would play it as an F on F horn, sounding a concert Bb. As in, why are the parts in E-flat?įirst, to play them on a F horn you have to transpose E-flat parts down a whole step. One topic that has come up for me as a question a number of times over the years is that of horn in E-flat.
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