Clefs

I bought a Bach Cantata on Amazon for a really cheap price. It had said "Full Score" so that was the only real requirement I had thought of for looking at scores. I had looked at cantatas on CPDL and IMSLP, but they used a variety of clefs- alto, soprano, and tenor, as well as treble and bass. This is a problem, partly because even though I can read those clefs, it would make score prep a LOT more difficult and time consuming, and partly because the accompanist would not find success reading open scoring of these different clefs. My lessons would probably not be as successful as they could be.

So today I put in a call to JW Pepper. My preference is a Barenreiter score, but really any publisher who does not use the variety of clefs would work. I can always double check any editions against facsimiles or scores we have in the library.

Being a musician can be expensive.