Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 1997/10

From: Harlan Harris <hharris@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Procaccini's Clown Music
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:19:24 -0400

"Dr. Ronald P. Monsen" writes:
>Just a suggestion about the low Eb's in the clarinet part: this quintet-
>which I do not know-may very well have been written for a group in which
>the clarinetist owned and performed upon a full-Boehm system instrument
>which has a low Eb to allow transposing of A clarinets parts on a Bb
>instrument. I believe that many Italian players in fact use such an
>instrument--the name of the composer may suggest that the group it was
>composed for was from Italy?

Yes, I think so.

>Who publishes this work--I would like to see it.

The publisher is Italian (G. Zanibon, Padova), and all of the copyright info
(1970), etc, is in Italian.

> Does the score give any information as to
>the group?

We don't have the score, just parts. The parts say nothing about who it was
composed for...

-Harlan