Klarinet Archive - Posting 000542.txt from 2001/08

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Come on Aaron, think about what you said!
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:15:20 -0400

Dan,

David Hattner can (and I'm sure will) speak for himself, but I read his
comment below to mean that pitch levels are not today what they were in
those times and places.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Come on Aaron, think about what you said!
>
>
>
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> HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:
>
> >
> > In any case, we have ALREADY transposed all pre 1850 music way
> > up from its original key.
>
> Was I out of town that day or are you referring to the B&H editions of
> the Beethoven symphonies that are produced for the sole purpose of
> presenting the original and the transposed part in one edition? So what
> does this activity mean? That B&H banished use of C clarinet? That
> some federal agency in Germany decided that C clarinets were never more
> to be used? That the international clarinet league no longer tolerates
> C clarinet music?
>
> What publishers do does not constitute a dictate of what or how things
> are to be played.
>
> And you go too far when you say, "all pre 1850" music. There is a ton
> of it that still remains untransposed.
>
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