Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:48:13 -0400

Send me your address.....

I love Uno's......best pizza made...except for Cottage Inn in Ann
Arbor....

Roger Garrett

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.17
> > Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
>
> > *sigh*
> >
> > Yes, Dan Leeson emailed me privately to let me know the same. What I told
> > him was that the works you mentioned below DO call for notes below Eb,
> > but, during the sections that call for the A Bass Clarinet, they do
> > not.....thus, I was incorrect that one must have a low C extension on an A
> > bass clarinet to play those works that DO call for notes below Eb (but
> > only during the Bb sections......)....!
> >
> > I think I owe Dan a pizza.
>
> Not just any pizza, only one mailed from Chicago's "Pizeeria Uno."
>
>
> >
> > Roger Garrett
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, ROBERT HOWE wrote:
> >
> > > Roger Garrett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would suggest that an A bass clarinet without the C extension would be a
> > > > great waste of money.......many of the parts calling for A Bass Clarinet
> > > > ask for the clarinetist to drop below a low Eb.
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is true of 1990's works, but such should never call for A
> > > bass clarinet. Name me a piece by Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, that call
> > > for A bass clarinet to play a note below written E, three lines below
> > > the treble staff, sounding C# two lines below the bass staff. THere are
> > > none.
> > >
> > > THe whole problem for us is that these folks treated A, Bb clarinets as
> > > a pair, also D and Eb (Till, Le Sacre, Mazeppa), bass clarinets
> > > likewise. But the bottom note was written E!!, and we modern bass
> > > clarinettists now have a low Eb on our beasties to accomodate this
> > > tone. THe low C arises from Russian scores and tradition (see Rimsky's
> > > text of orchestration, Prokfiev symphonies etc) which give the bass
> > > clartinet the same low compass as the faggot. IE, a low C on Bb.
> > >
> > > Perversely, the Schoenberg 5 Pieces for orch call for a CONTRABASS
> > > clarinet in A.
> > >
> > > Most orchestration textbooks cover this in detail....
> > >
> > > RObert Howe
> > >
> >
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
>