Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2000/06

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cosi fan tutte.....Clarinet Parts?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:22:33 -0400

All the printed editions automatically transpose the B-natural clarinet
parts onto A clarinets. I doubt if they even know for what clarinet
those parts are written, so arcane is the knowledge that a clarinet in
B-natural existed. Mozart also used it in the opera Idomeneo.

Karl Krelove wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]
> >
> > On Wed, 31 May 2000 21:28:30 -0400, kkrelove@-----.com said:
> >
> > > > From: KDL123@-----.com]
> > > >
> > > > Are there any clarinets in the orchestration for Cosi fan tutte?
> > >
> > > When we read it last week there were two parts, both for C, Bb and A.
> >
> > And, actually, B natural -- but you have to be *really* purist to
> > organise taking that one on.
> >
> > Tony
>
> That's curious. Are the B natural numbers transposed in modern working
> editions? I didn't have a reason at the time to notice the publisher when we
> played through it (it was a weekly session of a reading orchestra I play
> in - we only had the parts in front of us that night), but we did the entire
> opera minus the recitatives and there were definitely not B natural parts in
> the music we used. I'd have noticed, even if the conductor hadn't! ;-)
>
> Karl Krelove
>
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