Klarinet Archive - Posting 001106.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Wakefield on K. 622 in Australia
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:05:22 -0400

Since you've brought out this point, I wonder is there anyway to order from
sheet music mail order houses the great Bb soprano clarinet solos transposed
for Eb clarinet?

Also, is it always a prudent thing to use Eb when Bb is not available?

Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Tony, I congratulate you for your energy and effort in wanting to do
> Mozart's clarinet concerto in Alice Springs any way you can. I don't
> care if you do it with an accompaniment of a saxophone quartet.
>
> However, the question you asked of Alf, is a peculiar perspective. You
> say:
>
> "Would you allow me to ask you what is the difference between the
> concerto, that is the <solo> part, being accompanied by an orchestra, a
> wind band, (there has been an arr. in the publishers catalogues for
> years), an electronic reproduction, A piano reduction, (which I dare say
> has been used several times for performance in addition to rehearsal) or
> a string quartet."
>
> Are you seriously suggesting that all that is necessary for satisfactory
> reproduction of what Mozart wrote are simply the pitches of the work
> played on any combination of instruments at hand? That's what a literal
> interpretation of you question to Alf says. "What is the difference
> ..." is what you wrote.
>
> I could document 50 things that are specifically different, not the
> least of which is that the performance of any work should be a
> representation of what was in the composer's head at the time of its
> creation, and you are going to miss that by a country mile. That does
> not mean that what you are going to do is bad, or that you should not do
> it, or that an evil spell will descend on Alice Springs. Far from it.
> I'm glad you are doing the work any way you can. It is a step in the
> right direction.
>
> But do not think that there is no difference in the work as you will do
> it and as it was created to be heard. If that statement were correct,
> one could do K. 622 on trombone. "And what difference does it make...?"
>
> Or as someone suggested (in a way that repulsed you), why not do it on
> an E-flat clarinet. One could of course, and if nothing else is
> available, that's OK with me, but don't think that there is no
> difference here.
>
> The orchestra for K. 622 requires a flute. You don't need it, of
> course. There are no big flute solos. But leave it out and it makes a
> difference.
>
> If you have no string basses in Alice Springs, you could use a baritone
> sax. That's OK with me. But doing so will make a difference.
>
> Any deviation from the original makes a difference. Whether or not we
> are prepared to live with that difference is that matter under
> discussion, not that such differences are of no consequence.
> --
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