Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 1996/02

From: Martin Pergler <pergler@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: "Free Score" Composer here again with a Q.
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 08:30:13 -0500

On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Rick Sowash wrote:

[...]
> this assumption ... Hey, I'll be humble and ask for advice: should I send the
> full score along with the parts when I mail out my WW Quintet?

The advantage of a score is that it's easy to see what's going on. With
decent players and a piece which is familiar, and/or whose rhythm is not
too difficult, there may be little reason to consult it. Otherwise, it
can be very useful to see at a glance what to listen for in the ensemble
and solve problems.

Personally, when I can I like to read through the score of _any_ chamber
piece I'm working on to get a feel for "the whole thing", but these may be
the unnatural vagaries of a math grad student who is voluntarily
taking an orchestral conducting class.

Also, a score is almost necessary in a coaching or masterclass environment,
where you are expecting someone else to make sensible suggestions
and follow all the parts. A while ago I did a bit of informal coaching
(NB I'm not experienced at all in this sort of thing) for a student wind
quintet, and boy would I have liked a score in front of me, even for that
familar war-horse, the St. Anthoni Chorale.

> And now here's a larger question -- I have also written quite a lot of
splendid
> music for cello and would like to make a similar offer (to send out free
scores
> to whoever expresses an interest) to the cello world. Is there a cello
> equivalent of Klarinet forum? (perhaps with an equally unexpected spelling:
> Czello? Cjello? Chello? Tch'hello? Othello? Whatever?)
>
> Can anyone advise me?

You might want to try the Internet Cello Society, whose Web address is
http://tahoma.cwu.edu:2000/~michelj/ I don't know how active they are,
though.

Martin

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Martin Pergler pergler@-----.edu
Grad student, Mathematics http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~pergler
Univ. of Chicago