Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2001/09

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Ed Lacy's comments about horns`
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:44:59 -0400

Until around 1840, all keys other requiring more than 1 sharp and more
than 2 (sometimes 3) flats were suggested not to be used by EVERY single
clarinet tutor of the period. Rather than go into one of the proscribed
keys, you were required to change clarinets so as to avoid the problem.

Mozart, for example, in a series of composition lessons with Thomas
Attwood wrote in Attwood's lesson book (which exists today), "Clarinets
should only be used in the keys of C and F."

See the article on the subject in the Mozart Jahrbuch, 1998. The title
is "Mozart's deliberate use of incorrect key signatures for clarinet."

Dan

Jim Hobby wrote:
>
> >Dan Lesson wrote:
>
> > ... But both concerto also contain variations in C major during
> >which the clarinets do not play, and this is deliberate because, on the
> >clarinets at hand they would have been required to play in D major, a
> >forbidden key for all clarinets
>
> Why is/was the key of D major forbidden for all clarinets? That's
> one I've never run into.
>
> Jim Hobby
>
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