Klarinet Archive - Posting 000850.txt from 2001/10

From: lubydjackson@-----. Jackson)
Subj: Re: [kl] When to teach voicing for altissimo notes
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:05:52 -0400

WOW!

I'm just taken aback by all these high notes written for clarinet. Surely
the composers did this as an oversight because most of this is out of the
practical range for these instruments.

I've played several bass pieces/parts where everything was like high Ebs and
stuff. I thought this wasn't so fun. I've never seen anything like this on
alto clarinet.

How does one play these altissimo notes on eefer? The highest I can get on
Bb is the really high Bb.

I do remember hitting these notes back in high school but now on eefer, it
seems an impossibility.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] When to teach voicing for altissimo notes

> 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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