Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 1998/12

From: "MARY A. VINQUIST" <kenshaw@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Rubank Duet Books
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:05:34 -0500

Dee Hays wrote:

>Well the Rubank books were originally published well before the 1950's. =
I
>don't have them in front of me at the moment but I think the method book=
s
>were published in the 1930's. They were already old when you were in
>school!.

The transcriptions are *much* older than that. Larry McDonald at Oberlin=
=

has an edition dating from around 1850. He and I ran through it on 5-key=

instruments when I was at the Baroque Performance Institute several years=

ago, and it was identical to the Rubank edition. In fact, I think Rubank=

simply
photographed the same printing plates. Larry told me that the arrangemen=
ts
have been constantly stolen and republished, and that Voxman is only the
most recent to have pirated them.

This is hardly surprising. My wife did her dissertation on recorder tuto=
rs
and
found that they live practically forever in "new" versions. One of them
dates
from 1695 and was still being sold in the 19th century as a new method
under
a new "author's" name.

Steve Girko, meet Hymie Voxman.

Ken Shaw

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