Klarinet Archive - Posting 000769.txt from 2002/07

From: Glen Shannon <gshannon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conservative Clarinet Ranges: How do these look?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:55:15 -0400

Absolutely! As a tired composer in that non-innovative diatonic
scale-based style, I would be interested to hear real innovation.

btw if you are interested in further instrument ranges, you can check
out http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory29.htm

Glen

>At 12:08 AM 7/25/2002 -0700, Bear Woodson wrote:

<snip>

>> (I fail to see the interest in playing Diatonic
>>Major Scale Music, since it stopped being Inno-
>>vative 400 years ago, according to every History
>>Book that I know. At this rate, I can think of a
>>few Billion People who will never win their Buck-
>>Toothed, Coke-Bottle-Thick-Glasses, Pencil-
>>Necked Geek Awards, because they're too busy
>>having a Real Life. See what they're missing?!?!)

<snip>

>> Stravinsky needed to prove a point with Ex-
>>treme Ranges for the sake of New Orchestration
>>Standards and Unique Timbres, but I don't need
>>to do that. Instead I drive people crazy with un-
>>expected Chromaticism and Complex Counter-
>>point. Once they actually hear my works, they
>>say it makes sense. (I sometimes make a Syn-
>>thesizer Recording from my Finale Scores, so
>>that people can hear them, before Live Musicians
>>try to play them. If they already like Hindemith,
>>Prokofieff and those guys, then they usually like
>>my music, but they just need to get familiar with
>>hearing my works.)
>
>I think most of us would LOVE to hear one of these synthesizer
>recordings to get a better handle on your harmonic system. Is there
>any way one could be made available for listening? Mark, could Bear
>post one on the OCR?
>
>Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net

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