Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2001/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: question about recorders
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:37:52 -0500

The baroque equivalent to the sopranino was generally in G. You need
*very* small fingers to play one - certainly smaller than mine.
Modern bass recorder parts are actually written an octave *lower* than they
sound - in the bass clef.

Roger S.

In message <GPEDKFCBLLDGIIKDBJFFCEPPCBAA.karlkrelove@-----.org writes:
> > Alto recorder is F, however the music for it is not written in F.
> >
> I wasn't certain what this meant. All my experience with recorder music is
> that the music for the F instruments (Bass and Alto) is written in concert
> pitch (bass sounding an octave lower than written). The fingerings are
> similar to the chalumeau register of a clarinet (low note with all fingers
> down is F). In other words, unlike saxes, clarinets and even trumpets, the
> practice of writing as if each instrument is based on a C scale and
> transposing the written music was not adopted for recorders. Recorder
> players learn two different sets of fingerings, one for the F recorders, one
> for the C instruments (soprano and tenor). There's also a "sopranino" which,
> I assume (I've never played one), is pitched in F and sounds an octave
> higher than written.
>
> Karl
>
>
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