Klarinet Archive - Posting 000008.txt from 2000/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] What is it? (Masochism)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 04:59:40 -0500

In message <5d.2a7a94c.2730d2a5@-----.org writes:
> In a message dated 1/11/00 7:04:38 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time,
> Tony@-----.uk writes:
>
> > Note, *having to*, not *choosing to*.
>
> > But, not to be left out, I'm dangling a chicken's guts down this
> > instrument I've just got, in order to flatten it -- it's the right
> > period, but the wrong pitch -- and filling up some tone-holes with
> > clotted blood....it all helps....
> >
> > We're starting rehearsals the day after tomorrow, you see. But I'd much
> > rather go to that orgy round the corner....
> >
> > Clue: this instrument is only in one movement...
>
> In previous e-mails Allen Levin suggested Berlioz; Leila Loban narrowed it
> down to the "witches sabbath" part from his "Symphonie Fantastique".
> I don't recall whether that's the only movement which calls for sopranino
> clarinets, but I do think there were at least two of them (would something
> like "gaggle" be the right collective noun for >1?).
> I think the parts were written for Eb clarinets, not D clarinets, which were
> fairly common in France at the time (1830/31). "Right period, wrong pitch"
> suggests that either Tony has a higher pitch 19th century Eb clarinet which
> needs to be flattened to Eb or even D. Playing a sopranino clarinet is
> difficult enough; I imagine that playing a period instrument unnaturally
> tuned would be horrendously difficult (even for Tony Pay) which would explain
> the *having to*, not *choosing to*.
> (and if it's not Berlioz ... does the orchestration of Muzzorgsky's "Night on
> bare mountain" call for anything peculiar in the clarinet department?
> Tim.
>
>
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That last movement is scored for an E flat clarinet and a C.
Roger S.

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