Chords for Tenor Horn vs Baritone with Clarke's Carnival of Venice

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Good evening.
Tonight I am talking a little bit more about some other brass band instruments that we have.
First is this.
This is the E-flat tenor horn, and I'm going to compare that with this, which is the B-flat baritone.
So let's start with the E-flat tenor horn.
_ This instrument in the British brass band tradition is called an E-flat tenor horn.
_ In the German tradition or the American tradition is called an alto horn.
As I said, it's in the key of E-flat, just a little bit lower than the trumpet. _ _ _
It provides the alto part.
If you think of the four main
voicings, you have soprano, alto, tenor, bass.
The E-flat tenor horn provides the alto voice.
So its name is a little bit of a misnomer, but it is what it is.
It's a little instrument that comes in two main design configurations.
You have this
_ configuration where the body is a little bit elongated and the valves are exposed on the top here.
Or you have the, and this is the the more common, more modern style,
or the old version, the old design is a little bit more like this.
And that has the body shortened and it has a tube running over the top here that protects the valves.
_ _ And so that's really it for the tenor horn. _
_ _ _ _ The B-flat baritone is almost identical.
It is slightly bigger.
It is pitched a little bit lower than the E-flat horn.
It is in B-flat, an octave lower than a trumpet or the same pitch as a tenor trombone.
In fact, if you were just to play open notes
_ on a baritone and a tenor trombone, most people couldn't tell the difference.
And it is effectively for that reason called a valve, some people call it a valve trombone.
Now, the interesting thing to note is that although these instruments are in different pitches,
_ because of the way that they are designed, their heights, their general design is almost identical.
You can tell that there is a few more tubing wraps in the baritone if you look at it from the rear.
Whereas the tenor horn has a little bit less in terms of quantity, but the physical overall height
is quite similar.
The bore size is bigger on the baritone, the mouthpiece is bigger than on the tenor horn.
But other than that, at first glance, it sometimes can be quite difficult to tell the difference
between the two.
_ In the brass band, these two instruments tend to work together as a team.
This plays the alto part, this usually plays the tenor part.
So in that four-part harmony, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, you have alto and tenor.
And as I said, they tend to work together a lot.
And they are, in many ways, the unsung heroes of the band.
They spend a lot of their time playing the second and third parts,
and very little time playing solos, playing the melody, and so forth.
But they can work together beautifully to provide lovely harmonies,
lovely counter melodies, and so forth.
The people that play these instruments tend to be less showy.
They tend to be a bit quieter, because they don't get that limelight as much.
So people that are driven towards that as a form of motivation,
you'll find them not so often playing these instruments in your general bands.
Between these instruments, there are very few tonal differences,
other than the fact that, of course, they are a perfect fourth apart. _
But what I will do is I'll play an excerpt out of a piece of music on both of the instruments,
so that you can get an idea of what they sound like.
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _