Klarinet Archive - Posting 000168.txt from 1994/10

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: J. C. Bach and "Temistocle"
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 04:10:42 -0400

It seems that the parts in this opera ?) referred to as "clarinette d'amour"
parts in D in this list were actually indicated as being for "Tailles d'amour".
"Taille" was a common eighteenth-century French term for the <straight> tenor
oboe in F. Given that the oboe d'amore is pitched a minor third below the oboe,
and the clarinette d'amour was (typically) a minor third below the B flat
clarinet, the likely nature of the "taille d'amour" in D should be obvious.
However, there is always the possibility that actual intruments are going to
turn up which confute this hypothesis.
Roger Shilcock