Klarinet Archive - Posting 001423.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Please help me / Chalumeau / clarion etc
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:50:39 -0400

There are plenty of orchestral 1st clar. parts going up to "top" g#
and/or
a - Delius and Britten wrote parts going up to the B flat. The Spohr first
concerto
actually has an arpeggio passage ending on a top c.
Whatever Klose wrote in 18??, plenty of players do have to learn to play
these notes.
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 29 May 1998 fsheim@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:42:49 -0400
> From: fsheim@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Please help me / Chalumeau / clarion etc
>
> At 07:10 AM 5/29/98, you wrote:
> >Lam wrote:
> >
> <snip>
>
> Klose' said high G was the
> >reasonable limit of the instrument, and advised against going higher. To
> >judge by some of the posts here on the Klarinet list, there are a few
> >students out there, and possibly even some professionals, who spend time
> >trying to produce the altissimo notes, probably to impress other
> >clarinetists. Their time would be better spent blowing long tones and
> >playing tech exercises, scales and arpeggios.
> >
> >Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>
> >
>
>
> So how would you play the Spohr concertos, which ascend to high A, or even
> the Weber concerto, which ascends to high Bb?
>
> Fred (fsheim@-----.com)
>
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