Klarinet Archive - Posting 000656.txt from 1998/11

From: Scorp1014@-----.com
Subj: [kl] question on "Ballo Del Granduca" by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:35:02 -0500

Hi everyone:

The NY all-state festival is in two weeks and I have a major question about
one of the pieces that the wind ensemble is doing, Sweelinck's "Ballo Del
Granduca". Does anyone know this piece ?

In the third clarinet part, in measure 94 and 95, there is a figure that
starts at C (two lines above the staff): C C B A G F E F G E D C B D C
(starting high and ending at the third-space C). However, there is
"8va----------------" written BELOW those notes. Does that mean to play them
an octave lower, because the 8va is written below those notes ? Doesn't
8basso usually mean an octave lower ? Or does that mean to play them an
octave up ? An octave up involves playing at the upper limit of the clarinet
and if I have to do that I need to start practicing that ASAP. Can anyone
help ?

By the way, the other pieces we're doing besides Sweelinck's "Ballo Del
Granduca" are Mark Camphouse's "A Movement for Rosa" and Hindemith's
"Symphonic Metamorphosis", arranged by Keith Wilson.

Thanks !
~Jean Bredeche

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