Klarinet Archive - Posting 001279.txt from 1998/10

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Valdrez (New beginning)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:43:18 -0500

In a message dated 10/29/98 10:18:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
scottdmorrow@-----.com writes:

<< >>A pupil brought me a piece called VALDRESMARSJ by Johannes Hanssen.
>>The opening, he says, is just for clarinet solo. Does anyone know this
>>piece? Looks like a march of some sort. AG
>>--
>Yes. "Valdres" is a march, the national march of Norway, I believe.
The
>opening theme, at least in the band arrangement, is stated by a solo
>trumpet, but it is joined by a clarinet obligatto the second time
through. >>

Oh, I love Valdres!

I believe there are at least three editions of this march floating around,
with one of them very watered down (perhaps for middle school bands?) with no
clarinet obligato part, and another with the clarinet obligato somewhat
simplified - less mordants and grace notes. The third edition I've seen is
the real deal: mordants on just about every long note and all kinds of great
impossible embellishments. However, working them all out is a fun challange
and it sounds great! (A fellow band member had to ask me for a copy of my
part because his junior high kids who had gone to the concert just *had* to
see it, he said.)

Teri Herel

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