Klarinet Archive - Posting 000509.txt from 2001/08

From: "James Sclater" <Sclater@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] For Ken Shaw
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 04:51:48 -0400

I'm wondering if Mr. Leeson considers this matter equally serious in the =
case of horn players who do not use horns pitched in G or A, or E, or D, =
etc., but transpose everything on the F/Bb instrument.

Jim Sclater

James Sclater
Professor of Music
Mississippi College

>>> leeson0@-----.net 08/29/01 01:31PM >>>
Neil -- Re your note (below)

In the absence of any evidence that this point was unimportant to them,
and in the presence of considerable evidence that the orchestral palette
was one of their most personal and distinguishing musical
characteristics, it does not matter if these men shared my particular
conception. That each man scored the way he did is prima facie evidence
that they worked very hard to achieve a particular and very distinctive
orchestral palette of sound. I fail to see why this point is even being
raised at this stage of music history.

You ask if I consider this an important point. Surely you must be
joking after all the discussions you and I have had on this matter.

But just in case I never said it strongly enough in the past, I suggest
that the failure to realize the importance of the instrument's character
and contribution towards the overall palette is the single most
disguishing failure of contemporary clarinettists in today's orchestras.
The willingness to ignore that character is demonstrated by selecting
whichever instrument is the player's preference, frequently in
contradiction to what is requested, and particularly so in the case of
the clarinet in C. This, I suggest, is an indication of the
unimportance that most players assign to the question.

Dan

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> This assumes that the composers you mentioned -- or any composer at
> all -- shares your conception of an "orchestral palette". Am I cor-
> rect in considering this an important point?
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> Neil
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