Five things make a post

[bunrab]

1. We had cake for dessert, a packaged stollen someone had given us for xmas. Nutrition information: Serving size: 1/6 cake. Servings per package: 9.

2. Finally got around to doing our taxes - it's not complicated, it doesn't take long, but I always put it off. Hardest part is finding things. Anyway, we're due $1K refund from the feds, and then conveniently, we owe $1K on state-and-local for Maryland/Baltimore.

3. I am transcribing music into Finale, from handwritten parts; the great-grandfather of one of the Montgomery Village Community Band's flute players wrote several marches, in little teeny handwriting, and without parts for any instruments that the village band he originally wrote them for didn't have. So I'm entering the tuba part and transposing it for bari sax and bass clarinet, entering the Bb clarinet parts and transposing them for flutes, etc. Finale is not a perfect medium, and I still haven't figured out how to put in a "repeat the previous measure" sign.

4. We'll be flying back down to Texas 4/16, and returning 4/22. The estate sale is Thursday-Friday-Saturday the 17-18-19.

5. I am putting off cleaning the remaining one of the three rabbit litter boxes, and also cleaning the hedgie cage. Procrastination is my second middle name!

Comments

[parelle.livejournal.com]

So what parts were covered in the marches?

[(Anonymous)]

There were first and second clarinets, but no flutes. Alto and tenor horn parts, which we're using for alto and tenor sax, but no bari. No french horns, no bass clarinet, no bassoon or oboe. Some of the marches have 3rd clarinet parts and 2nd alto sax parts, some don't. Most have Bass (presumably, tuba or string bass), Alto Horn (practically extinct in the US by now) - in fact, one march has 1st through 4th alto horn, so I'm transposing those for the French horns - seems like as good a substitute as any. There's no bass trombone parts, and the euphonium parts are only baritone treble clef. Clearly, the band he was writing for was heavy enough on tubae that he didn't feel a need to have much else play the bass parts, and we're finding otherwise.