Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 1998/03

From: Tsnlistarsksli Seltjarnarness <acb@-----.is>
Subj: Re: Procaccini's Clown Music
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:45:31 -0500

At 09:18 PM 10/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>The woodwind quintet I'm playing in randomly grabbed a piece called "Clown
>Music", by Theresa Procaccini, out of the library. For some odd reason, the
>soprano clarinet part has several too-low E-flat/D-sharps written. I have
>several questions:
>
>1. What's up with that?
>
>2. Is it a bad sign that the composer didn't bother to check the ranges of
>the instruments?
>
>3. Has anyone ever played this piece?
>
>3a. If so, did you play up an octave, or did you play another note in the
>chord?

I simply transposed the necessary parts and played them on A clarinet. Anne
Benassi
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>
>Thanks,
>
> -Harlan
>
>--
>Harlan Harris Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>hharris@-----.edu (217) 244-7202
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