Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 23:51:22 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.62
> Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)

> On Thu, 6 May 1999 13:46:28 -0700 , kevinfay@-----.com said:
>
> > I suppose that it's possible that Beethoven and others of his age put
> > parts in C as a random exercise--but it's very clear to me that
> > Strauss, writing this in 1944-45, definitely wanted the brighter
> > sound. Probably ditto with Mahler and the other late Romantic works
> > using the smaller instrument. (So I read Tony Pay's anecdote about
> > using it being Schubert's decision with a grin.)
>
> A good example of the deliberate use of the C clarinet by Beethoven, I
> would say, is the slow movement of the violin concerto. Most modern
> players will play this movement on the A clarinet, in order to avoid
> changing, and it goes OK on the period A clarinet too. (In a way,
> better technically on the A, because you don't have a good low B natural
> on the 5-key C clarinet.)
>
> But the sound is different, the C clarinet being more suitable to my
> mind for the duet with the solo violin. (Like the Missa Solemnis, with
> solo orchestral violin and 2! C clarinets. Sophisticated mathematical
> pun in there:-)
>
> In Schubert's case too, the slow movement of the Great C major changes
> clarinet, this time in the opposite direction! The A clarinet is used
> in C minor, rather than the C clarinet in A minor, with some quite
> tricky passages on the period instrument.
>
> By the way, I'm looking forward to the discussion to come, when the
> Pamela Weston version (Universal Edition) of the Mozart concerto arrives
> in the US. Blood on the walls isn't in it.

TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know of this
situation. Please don't make me wait until Pamela's edition is
out. What are the issues involved???? What has she done?

Pamela is a very conservative and thoughtful musician. What did she
do? Change it to tenor sax??

>
> I won't spoil it for you by saying more. (Ready, Dan?-)
>
> Tony
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> ...Life is boring without scapegoats. I blame the scapegoats for this.
>
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