Klarinet Archive - Posting 000841.txt from 2001/10

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] When to teach voicing for altissimo notes
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:50:30 -0400

Walter Grabner wrote:

>Luby says:

><<Your post brings about an interesting topic. While playing through
American Civil War >Fantasy, I had to play a bar going all the way up to the
high G on
>the Eb Clarinet. Is this common to find Eb Clarinet parts written so
high?>><

Walter replied:

>In orchestral music, yes. You see it all the time.

>In band music, no; as the composers/arrangers know that they might be
dealing with less >experienced players there that might not be able to
handle that register.

That may be the case with modern band writing, but our local concert band
plays quite a bit of older works and high G does appear for the Eb clarinet,
for example, in the following:

Alexander - "Olympia Hippodrome March"
Sousa - "Stars and Stripes Forever"
Fillmore - "The Crosley March", "Rolling Thunder" (Trill high F/G)
Huffine - "Them Basses"

A casual browse through my folder didn't locate high G other than in
marches, but F and F# were used.

I don't know what they are playing in high school these days, but we played
"Semper Fideles" years ago, going up to high A (on Bb).

Regards,

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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