Klarinet Archive - Posting 000269.txt from 1998/01

From: "J. Shouryu Nohe" <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Wedding music
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:19:13 -0500

Well, I think this'll work better on bass than soprano, but I've played
them on soprano and they sound fine as well: Six Suites for Violoncello by
Bach. The only problem is being able to read bass clef. The first two
movements fo the first suite are very beautiful pieces which might go
nicely at a wedding.

As often the case is with bass clef music, it's tempting to scribble out
the clef and key, and then play it as if it were Eb keyed, but the timbre
of the different ranges doesn't sound right to me. It's best to play them
in the concert keys they are written (one note: in the first movement,
there are a few low D's/D#'s which actually flow VERY smoothly when
transposed an octave up if you don't have a basset clarinet or a low c
Bass.)

Shouryu

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