Klarinet Archive - Posting 001007.txt from 1998/05

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Wind Ensemble
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:30:47 -0400

Please be more careful with your snips and quotes. Things are being attributed
to the wrong person here. None of the material below the signature immediately
following this paragraph is mine!

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

Carl Schexnayder wrote:

> Dee Hays wrote:
>
> >In 1782 the word "Harmonie" meant a very specific kind of a wind band.
> >By 1810 is slowly began to take on the meaning of a military band.
> >By 1850 it meant any band with wind and brass musicians. So the
> >phenomenon you are describing (i.e., a wind ensemble changing its
> >character over time) is very consistent with past history.
> >
> Dee D. Hays
> Canton, SD
>
> Fennell's idea, which I thought came about through collaboration with
> various composers who had not written for the band because of uncertain
> instrumentation, was to provide a standard instrumentation so that composers
> would be able to write with confidence that a group made up of a standard
> instrumentation would perform their works. These were some of the composers
> who were perceived to be better composers, but who would not consider
> writing for the band because of non-standard instrumentation.
>
> So, my question is this: Is this purpose no longer worthy of consideration
> or is it something we should try to support?
>
> Carl Schexnayder
>
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