Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 2003/04

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] C clarinet weirdness
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:35:43 -0400

Possibly bad editing AFTER the composer wrote the piece? Are the
parts in the odd clef in ALL editions of the piece, with
different publishers, or could it just be a particular editor at
a particular publishing house screwing up?

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
> It would make a fascinating and valuable study to find out why
> the
> notation for bass clarinets is so screwed up. The Germans do
> it one
> way, the French another, the English a third, and Wagner, all
> by
> himself, yet a fourth way (sometimes). Occasionally the
> ambiguities
> make it unclear in which register one is to execute the notes.
>
> Now that's a doctoral dissertation subject if there ever was
> one.
>
> Inresponse to Gary's comments, I sometimes would switch into
> bass clef
> while in the middle of a treble clef passage and for no
> discernable reasons.
>
> The use of bass clef sometimes results in the note being
> written an
> octave lower than it sounds, such as how Mozart wrote a low C
> for basset
> horn or even soprano clarinet in bass clef. It's weird all
> right.
>
> Dan
>
> Gary Truesdail wrote:
> > Same thing happens to me when playing my quartets. All the
> bass clarinet parts in my arrangements are in bass clef. When
> playing the arrangements of others, whose bass clarinet parts
> are in treble clef, I sometimes find that
> > I'm the one playing all the wrong notes because I
> unknowingly started to read the music as bass clef. Bass
> Clarinet parts just should not be written in treble clef.
> Right!!
> >
> > GaryT
> >
> > GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I kept trying to transpose it!!!!!!!

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