Klarinet Archive - Posting 001376.txt from 2000/04

From: Bear Woodson <Bear@-----.Com>
Subj: [kl] Harp List Info
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:00:54 -0400

Hello, Clarinet List.

As you know, I do not perform on the clarinet, nor any
instrument, but I am a composer. I happen to be on several
Instrument Lists, and even though I get the Daily Digest of
each, I get about 30 - 40 E-Mails a day. It takes hours to
answer them all.

Recently I noticed that you have talked about Scottish
music for clarinet and harp. I know absolutely nothing
about this; but in case any of you would wish to learn more
about that from the other side of the coin, here is the
information for the Harp List, which is called "HarpCircle":

Shortcut URL to the HarpCircle page:
http://www.onelist.com/community/harpcircle

To Subscribe:
<HarpCircle-SubScribe@-----.Com>

To Unsubscribe:
<HarpCircle-UnSubScribe@-----.Com>

To Post a Message:
"HarpCircle" <HarpCircle@-----.Com>

List Owner:
<HarpCircle-Owner@-----.Com>

By the way, as I orchestrate my Horn Concerto and
Harp Rhapsody, I am using small orchestras of similar
scorings. Each use only 8 woodwinds, one each of: piccolo,
flute, oboe, English Horn, 2 different sizes of clarinets,
bassoon and contra bassoon. In the Horn Concerto, they
are a Bb (soprano) clarinet, and a Bb (long-bodied) bass
clarinet; while in the "Ashkenazic Rhapsody for Harp and
Orchestra", they are an Eb Sopranino clarinet, and a Bb
(long-bodied) bass clarinet. (I wanted that extra shrillness
for more of the Middle-Eastern/Klezmer flavor.)

Now that 12-Tone is officially dead, university com-
posers will no longer stomp on you, for writing music
with a personality. They are actually going back to Chro-
matic Modal styles (like Bartok, Hindemith, Walton), as I
was originally trained, in detail. I'm having a lot of fun
with the Eb Sopranino Clarinet in the Rhapsody, for my
first time to score it in a mature work. It's supposed to
have that schmaltzy Ashkenazic style . . . . but all that
schmaltz doesn't seem to help the Blood Cholesterol!
(*pout!*) Oh, well.

I hope the Harp List Info helps.

Bear Woodson
doctoral student composer at the
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA

"If Conservationists do their conserving in a Conservatory,
do Philosophers do their supposing in a Suppository?"
- Bear Woodson (1974)

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