Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 2000/08

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Prokofiev Quintet
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:14:30 -0400

At 05:45 AM 08/16/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Bill, the Prokofiev has an interesting side piece of information. The
>second movement (I think) is one in which the meter changes every
>measure. Well, some smart ass at a publishing house decided to rewrite
>that movement into a 4/4 form rather than presenting in with constant
>meter changes. So when one buys that edition (I think it is
>International but it's been a long time), one gets two different printed
>versions of that movement.
>
>Personally, I can't play the 4/4 version because, instead of making it
>easier, the rewritten meter is 10 times harder! So much for efficiency.

That is an amazingly similar to what happened to John Barnes Chance's work
for band, Blue Lake Overture. The work was originally written with many
mixed meters: 6/8, 9/8, 7/9, etc, but the publisher felt no high school
band would ever attempt it. So......they had Chance rewrite it in 4/4.
What a mess.....every time we do the piece, we have to rescore the parts
back to the original ideas.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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