Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2000/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [Re: [kl] Early Beethoven, etc...]
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:29:47 -0400

At 03:58 PM 5/2/2000 -0700, Dan Leeson wrote:
>The fact that the basset clarinet and the low C bass clarinet both
>happen to descend to low C is absolutely a coincidence. In the bass
>clarinet, the low C was used because it permits the b.c. to play bassoon
>parts. In the basset clarinet, it was for the purpose of allowing
>arpeggios to end on the tonic of the most commonly used key; i.e.,
>written C major.
>
I guess I did not realize that is why the low C bass existed. The whole
thing makes much more sense in that light.

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