Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 1998/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Piano Accompaniments
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:26:10 -0500

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From: Patticlar@-----.com>
Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 5:00 PM
Subject: [kl] Piano Accompaniments

>Piano Accompaniments
>
> In the last couple of years I have had two students (one who ordered the
>International Edition of Mozart K.622 Concerto and one who ordered the
>International Edition of the Weber Concerto) get clarinet parts with no
piano
>accompaniments. Is this a new trend or just a freak accident?
>
> In my youth I always got both parts as a matter of course. (Also there
was
>no choice.) My local store in town refuses to stock concerto level pieces
>saying, "There is not enough call for them," so I haven't been able to see
>anything recently. Any one know the answer to this?

Not a new trend at all. I can dig out several of my old copies of music and
right on the cover is a list of the pieces with the solo and piano parts
priced separately. It just depends on how the publisher decides to go about
it. Of course there is always the possibility that they goofed and you
should have received both parts.

How big is your town? Is there another store within reasonable distance?
Even here in the wilds of South Dakota, I can get most of the more common
pieces at a music store in Sioux Falls (about 20 minutes away). And they
are more than happy to order any music that I want.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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