Klarinet Archive - Posting 000857.txt from 2001/06

From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Fw: [kl] Thumb and Wrist, Breathing, Print, Composing Problems.
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:12:34 -0400

Tony,

Poor transcription is just one problem that we have. Publishers -- even the
major ones -- have gotten downright sloppy. While I was playing with the
community band, at least one in three new publication had major (or in some
cases, just absurd) mistakes. It's possible that computer technology is to
blame -- an assumption on my part. Clarinet parts in three flats: Bb, Eb,
and Fb. Measures left out. Eight-bar sections not transposed from concert
pitch. Double bars in the middle of phrases with no rational reason -- that
aren't in some other parts. (One of the most entertaining ones: A
three-page 2d clarinet part, the second page of which showed to be in TENOR
CLEF!) Not clarinet, but 1st, 2d, & 3rd Trumpet parts each in a different
key for the same section of music. Sounded ... interesting, to say the
least. We had a full score that the center six pages were from an entirely
different composition. We sight read a lot of music, and it made it really
strange sometimes.

If one-third of the transcripts I provided for the court system had this
level of mistakes, I wouldn't have a job very long. I don't think anyone is
proofing the parts before they are printed in a lot of firms, or maybe they
just proof at random and part here or there.

Jim Hobby

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>

>I can`t say that I`m getting many replies to my undermentioned post. Only
>Jim Hobby so far: and his refers to 50 year old band music. YOU SEE, THE
>PROBLEM IS STILL AROUND TODAY.

<snip>

>Let us defend our right to have good and intelligently written parts for
us.
>Let us be more vocal, not only to the conductor, but to the music writer
>him/herself if there is some bad writing which needs to be changed.

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