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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