Klarinet Archive - Posting 000592.txt from 2001/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:27:39 -0500

"Kevin Fay (LCA)" wrote:
>
> In any event, I can't tell - the edition we're using is denoted
> "Broude Brothers," with no other markings on the part or score. It's > probably the cheap one.

Every edition published up to 1979 is a copy of the 1875 B&H edition.
Broude Brothers is no exception. The really cheap edition is the one
from Kalmus which is a photocopy of the 1875 edition. It's also
published by Musica Rara. They are all identical. I am sorry you are
using that edition, but that is none of my business. And it is
particularly tragic because you will have no way of knowing that there
is an issue about getting to the coda in the fifth movement. The bass
part does not have "col arco" markings so the bassist does not know when
to stop playing pizzicato. Therhythm's in the horn parts are incorrect
in at least two places, and there must be 1000 or more phrasing errors.

Now if the conductor is using the Barenreiter edition, your problems
will be magnified, not diminished because so great are the differences
between that score and the Broude Brothers parts, that there is almost
no way to reconcile the two. He or she will ask you to play piano where
your part says forte, he or she will ask for this or that kind of
phrasing when your part is quite different. It can't be fixed in
rehearsal.
>
> I will be playing the 4th clarinet part. It "should" be the 2d basset > horn part, but neither the 3d player nor I own a basset horn, and this > particular gig isn't worth the effort to both scrounge a couple up and > learn how to play them in tune. Given who the players are (i.e., me), > and what we're getting paid (zero), it will be a more effective
> performance if we use instruments we're used to. Besides, it wasn't
> my decision and, as I said, I'm lazy.

Of course it is worth the effort!! How can you make such a statement as
it not being worth the effort to play the work properly? I can
understand if you can't get basset horns but it is not a meritorious
attitude to suggest that it isn't worth the effort to get them.

> Of course the spelling is incorrect. Whoever wielded the red crayon
> left the "D" off!
>

That too!!

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