Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2000/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] An error in a Sousa march
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:34:40 -0400

This isn't a clarinet-related question, but rather is concerned with the
tenor saxophone part in the original edition of The Washington Post March
by John Phillip Sousa, published by Carl Fischer. I know that there are
many on the Klarinet list who also play saxophone, so perhaps others will
have encountered this situation.

In the first strain of the trio of this march, just after the key change
from F Major to Bb Major, there is an error in the tenor saxophone part
which makes it unplayable unless you happen to know the march fairly well
and are able to skip around, skip a measure in one place and add one in
another place. The strain does have the requisite 16 measures, but
unfortunately, there is a seven-measure phrase and a nine-measure one. My
question is, how could this error have occurred and how could it be that
it has never been corrected in all these years? I know that this piece
has been played by just about every wind band of all levels of ability,
and no doubt in many cases the sounds coming from the tenor saxophone must
have been quite interesting.

Does anyone have any insights into this situation?

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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