Klarinet Archive - Posting 001041.txt from 1999/01

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stravinsky's "Le Sacre"
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 04:01:18 -0500

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Joe Turpin wrote:

> I loved the posts on this subject. Gave me a good chuckle as I
> remembered my early encounters with this excerpt; not realizing that
> the bassoon actually goes to a high e-flat at the theme's reappearance
> at rehearsal 12 after being transposed up a half step!

All that you said about the limitations of the German bassoon in the early
20th century and the relatively greater flexibility of the French bassoon
in the high register was exactly on target. However, one small point...

At rehearsal 12 in the "Rite," the theme which the bassoon stated at the
beginning returns, but this time a half step *lower*, so that the opening
note is Cb rather than C, and the highest note is Db as opposed to the D
of the opening solo.

I hope we are talking about the same spot.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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