Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 1998/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rubank Duet Books
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:05:42 -0500

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From: MARY A. VINQUIST <kenshaw@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: [kl] Rubank Duet Books
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 arrangements
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 tutors
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.

Absolute true. If you look at the Advanced Rubanks closely, the sections on
fingering exercises come out of Klose (I believe, again, I don't have the
books just right here in front of me).

Reprints are good though. The typeface and layout is often better. I find
the Rubank books to be very easy on the eyes.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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