Klarinet Archive - Posting 001057.txt from 1999/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:44:44 -0500

Sam Jones wrote:
>
> I was recently looking at a study score for "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry
> Pranks" by Strauss. I noticed a part for the D Clarinet. I've never played
> this piece, but I wondered why Srtauss requests a D clarinet and not an E
> flat clarinet. What other orchestral pieces call for the D clarinet? Where
> do you purchase a d clarinet? What are the intonation tendencies compared
> with the e flat clarinet?

Sam, there are many kinds of clarinets that you may not have heard of
and which, therefore, are foreign to you. That seems to be the case
for the clarinet in D. Strauss, as far as I know, left no information
about why he chose this instrument as contrasted with any other.
The part in Till is generally played on an E-flat clarinet only because
D clarinets are rare, though you can purchase one in a New York
minute if you wish. There are also parts for clarinet in B-natural,
C, A-flat, and G and you should not presume, when you see one,
that some terrible mistake has been made.

The characteristics of a D clarinet are very favorable and they tune
beautifully if you get a good one.

Why are you surprised by all of this?

Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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