Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 1997/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: "Repieno" Clarinet
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:22:40 -0400

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Jarle Brosveet wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:03:34 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Jarle Brosveet <jbrosvee@-----.no>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: "Repieno" Clarinet
>
> Don Gross wrote:
> >The parts include concert flute & piccolo,
> >Db flute & piccolo, 1st and 2nd bassoon or bass clarinets (in bass clef!),
> >and solo, *repieno*, 2nd, and 3rd clarinet, horns in Eb, plus the rest of the
> >band.
>
> These must be very old parts indeed. Band music of yesterday had Repieno or
> Repiano parts for cornet or/and clarinet to cover up for important
> instruments likely to be missing in the local band, which used to be quite
> small. Repieno parts were "filling-in" parts played in full or in part as
> the conductor decided. Basically, Repiano parts were there to secure that
> the melody or important harmonics would come through no matter what
> instruments were present. In modern band music, strands not to be left out
> are explicited cued into various parts by the composer or arranger and no
> longer extracted to form a Repieno part. The use of Repieno parts in this
> context is different from that of the Baroque, although the notion has
> something in common.
>
> Jarle Brosveet
>
>
Thanx - I hadn't known all this.
Roger Shilcock