Klarinet Archive - Posting 001105.txt from 1999/12

From: "Kathy & Jeff Young" <kay10@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:15:41 -0500

I had not heard of this until I saw a Clar. Choir Piece that had this in it
as an optional instrument.

----- Original Message -----
From: klara <klahall@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] The D clarinet

>
> I have heard of, but not heard a sopranino clarinet in Ab--told me by a
> reliable directer who had seen & heard it in Italian band.
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:44:44 -0800 Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
> writes:
> >
> >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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