Klarinet Archive - Posting 000971.txt from 1997/10

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:56:43 -0400

Before me are orchestration texts by (in order of publication)
Berlioz/Strauss, Rimsky, Forsyth, Kennan, Piston, DelMar and Adler. ALL
COVER THIS TOPIC of A versus Bb bass, altho Rimsky only in a table;
interestingly, his table of ranges for bass calinet in A or Bb extends
to written low C. Strauus even states that the A bass clarinet is
obsolete (yet he wrote for it!!) Piston's discussion is the best and is
essentially the same as what I have said in the past four notes.

Q. E. D.

Robert Howe

Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.09
> > Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, ROBERT HOWE wrote:
> >
> > > Most orchestration textbooks cover this in detail....
>
> I'm one post out of synch, but I have never seen any
> orchestration book cover this in any detail. The most
> that will be said is that "the A bass clarinet is an
> obsolete instrument" but that, on the part of the author,
> is a cop out.
>
> >
> > Ahhh.....just a little turning of the knife hmmmm? *sly look*....we shall
> > see....we shall see.....
> >
> > RG
> >
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> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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