Posted by js on March 21, 2003 at 09:56:32:
In Reply to: Re: excerpts posted by Scott Roeder on March 21, 2003 at 09:47:27:
I don't have a good scholarly source for this, but didn't Berlioz change the designation on his parts from "ophicleide" to "tuba" himself (this back in the days of composers carrying their music from place-to-place with them and conducting performances of it).