Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 1999/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Villa-Lobos Woodwind Quartet
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:23:10 -0400

Chuck,
In South America, it is common for players to have a full-boehm
clarient. Therefore, the low e-flat presents no problem. While Villa Lobos
SHOULD have known better, he obviously didn't (at least at the time he
wrote this peice). As for why the publisher never bothered changing it,
you'll find that publishers usually don't really care what crap they are
printing up and will not change unless the composer has enough
interest and/or clout to make them re-print things. For example,
Stravinsky must have known about all the egregious misprints in all his
orchestral music. But did he care? NO!! Did Boosey ever change anything?
NO!! Not until the copyrights started expiring did they get around to
fixing all those mistakes (since now ANYONE could publish the **correct**
parts). Certainly not while Stravinsky was alive.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, chuck wrote:

> Anyone ever played this piece? I just purchased the (very expensive)
> set of parts, and find that even though the clarinet part is in Bb,
> there are several low Eb's. So in listening to the recording I find
> that the clarinet does indeed go down to the low Eb's.
>
> Why does the set of parts continue to be published with a Bb-only part?
> Why not publish a transposed part (A-clarinet) so we don't have to do it
> ourselves?
>
> Any insight would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>
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