Klarinet Archive - Posting 000378.txt from 2002/12

From: clare.woodham@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Mezzo soprano pieces
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:45:18 -0500

Richard

I have looked at the Amy (as a singer, rather than as a clarinettist).
I thought it was a good piece. It goes up to A (a major 3rd higher than
you specify), but the context is not terribly demanding. This note (whic=
h
from memory only appears once) would probably be the least of your singer=
?s
worries. I assume from the rest of your list that your vocalist is comfo=
rtable
singing contemporary music, and prepared to make some funny noises! From=

a purely practical point of view, the score is written for mezzo (in C)
and clarinet in A, and transposing it on the fly (for pitch purposes) wou=
ld
be a tall order. In order to make any sense of it, I had to write it out=
.

FWIW, to make ?d?un Destastre Obscure? easier to programme, Amy used simi=
lar
thematic material in another piece, ?Apres un Destastre Obscure?, scored
for the same forces as Pierrot Lunaire.

Clare

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