Klarinet Archive - Posting 000518.txt from 1996/11

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: 2 clarinets + orchestra
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:37:13 -0500

Linda,
Go to my Web page and download the midi files of the two double concertos by
Stamitz and Krommer. Find someone with software (either on a Mac or PC)
which can play MIDI files and listen to them. I personally like the Krommer
more than the Stamitz, but that is a matter of personal taste. They're both
really quite nice. You may find it useful to have the midi files also with
which
you and your comrade can practice independently if each of you has a
computer with MIDI sequencing software and a sound board.
The files I offer are piano reductions, so you're on your own as
regards the parts -- but I'm sure that you ought to be able to find an
orchestral
arrangement.

Finally, I apologize for the somewhat rough nature at one place and another.
I was still learning how to use MIDISCAN and Finale and some funny rhythm
gets into the accompaniment here and there. It still sounds O.K. but suggests
that the spirit of those two composers were lurking down at me and putting
some mid-20th century cadences into my transcription!

I'll get back to fixing it up one of these days, but I'm having too much fun
discovering clarinet literature that I never knew existed.

By the way, I finally have finished Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio (K 498). IT .
. IS. .
STUNNING! I LOVE it. And particular it would seem to offer the possibility
that a number of combinations of instruments will sound good together in the
traditional clarinet/viola parts.

I'll touch it up a bit tonight and tomorrow. It ought to be on my Web page
before Sunday evening.

And I've just started on the Danzi Opus 41 Sinfonia Concertante for Flute,
Clarinet and Piano. 57 pages worth! I must be completely nuts!

Oliver