Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2001/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Marking rental music
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:42:50 -0400

I'm primarily a bassoonist, so another thing that irritates me to no end
about marked parts is people writing in the names of the notes every time
the tenor clef appears. If bassoonists haven't yet learned to read the
tenor clef, then they shouldn't be trying to play orchestral works in which
it is used. To make matters worse, often when there is a series of repeated
notes, the note name will be written over every one! For example, in a
series of repeated middle C's, above the notes will be written, "C - C - C -
C - C," etc. It's as if they're afraid that the name of the note might
change from one note to the next.

You often will also see arrows pointing up or down above various notes.
That means that for at least one person, on at least one occasion, the note
had to be favored up or down in intonation in order to tune to something.
Naturally, this is totally immaterial to anyone else in any other contest,
and it would also have been meaningless to the player who wrote it in when
they next came to the same passage.

Thanks for the chance to rant.....

Ed Lacy
EL2=evansville

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