Klarinet Archive - Posting 000433.txt from 1997/09

From: Daniel.Meirsman@-----.com
Subj: RE: treble clef
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 06:14:13 -0400

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Here my opinion regarding this issue:

Chalumeaux were originally made in different pitches not for the sake of making
the music easier to play. Instead, it was still very much the barock idea of the
consorts that motivated this. I think originally notation followed the same
guidelines as were used for recorders.

Then later, with the advent of the clarinet and its subsequent success in the
orchestra (and the proliferation of clarinets of different pitches), someone
probably made the observation it would be much easier to have notes linked to
fingerings. Much more so because on the clarinet the fingering of notes of the
same name is different across different octaves.

Not linking notation to fingering would mean that fingering of a note would
depend on pitch of the clarinet and octave played.

Hope this does not sound too stupid

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-----Original Message-----
From: majordom@-----.us
Subject: Re: treble clef

bert.six@-----.edu wrote:
>
> There you go, in the 18 years that I am on this planet, I haven't been
in > touch that much with the orchestra world. I have been around the
block > though. You may be right. But I still my explation of the
soprano > clarinet... was still the right one.

Are you sure, Bert? It seems to me that the alto clef would
have been a better fit. The viola, an older instrument
with similar range, uses an alto clef for written music. In fact,
there are a good number of pieces where the composer has
specied to use either a clarinet or viola for a part.
Following your logic, why not the soprano clef instead of
the treble clef (the soprano clef had the bottom line as
middle C). We don't see the soprano clef often today, but
it was used in earlier centuries.

You *believe* your explanation to be correct; an opinion,
but not necessarily a correct opinion. As Dr. Lacy pointed out,
there are other instruments at least as old as the clarinet which
use multiple clefs in their normal range.
--
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charette@-----.com when you're not anywhere at all?"
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