Klarinet Archive - Posting 000819.txt from 2000/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart and clarinet range
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:01:38 -0400

At 02:47 PM 10/14/2000 -0700, Dan Leeson wrote:
>Sorry Bill, but this argument does not wash. We have clear and
>unambiguous evidence of what Mozart wrote for solo basset clarinet in
>the very year in which he wrote K. 622, namely, the opera Titus in which
>a basset clarinet accompanies Sesto for the aria, Non piu di fiori, and
>one finds no high g in that aria. Now you can explain this away 42 ways
>to Sunday, but if the argument is that the presence of the new clarinet
>allowed Mozart to use the new notes available on it, then the absence of
>the high G in the Titus is very telling evidence against the theory you
>suggest.
>
>Besides, he had the basset clarinet at least as far back as K. 581 and
>one finds no high G in that work either.

I was, of course, referring to the extended LOW range in the case of the
basset clarinet, which he DID use.

And to correct the mangled syntax left from too many edits in my previous
post:

>>...From that it seems reasonable to
>> conclude that he would not have dismissed the possibility of a high G out
>> of hand unless there was some other reason to do so, possibly faulty
>> intonation, but who knows?...

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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