Klarinet Archive - Posting 000511.txt from 2002/06

From: w7wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Beethoven "Clarinet" Concerto!!!???
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:47:50 -0400

<><> Bear Woodson wrote:
would also like to know how high it is safe to write. I'm assuming the
Concert E, 3 Ledger Lines above the Treble Clef as a safe ceiling

Definitely safe! Even I can land on concert D most of the time.

Whether such notes (above concert C) are pleasant for the audience is
another topic. I dislike them, myself, unless the musician is a
virtuoso and is absolutely in control *and* the duration is short.
It's not the pitch that I dislike. I enjoy listening to piccolo and E
flat concertos. It's the tone that drives me up the wall.

My fingering guide goes an octave higher to concert F, an octave + 4
spaces above staff. However the guide (Alan Sims, 303 Fingerings) also
says that the F# an octave lower [only 4 spaces above staff] is
"regarded by many players as the highest note for sensitive playing."

TRIVIA QUESTION: Name a concerto in which F *altississimo* [octave + 4
spaces above] appears. Perhaps I'll buy a CD of it, just to hear what
it sounds like.

Benade puts the limit at: "For a clarinet, however, people usually
consider it possible to use notes up to C." [concert, an octave + 2
lines above]

Cheers,
Bill

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What is the purpose of a language? =A0 To be beautiful or wise or
pleasurable in itself? Or to describe many different things ---
beautiful or not --- to other people? This is why the question of
whether music is a 'language' is relevant.

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