Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 2003/06

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Purchase of Orchestral Parts
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:37:47 -0400

I mention that none of the most popular six various editions (and which
are significantly different in what one has to play) are of a difficulty
that would give you much of a problem. Of these, one edition, the
Kalmus edition, will sell you just the basset horn parts for a few
dollars each. It is a publishing company that will sell you the second
trombone of Beethoven's third symphony. That sort of thing. But what
you will get is a set of parts that can only be used with the Süssmayr
completion of the Requiem. You cannot use it with the Levin, Maunder,
Druce, Beyer, or Robbins Landon editions.

These last five are not available outside of buying the complete
orchestral set and I believe that three of them (Levin, Maunder, and
Druce) are available only on rental.

The orchestral scores to all six editions are available for purchase, so
you could buy the scores and extract the parts from them. But I think
that the effort would not be worth the trouble. The parts are
relatively easy to play at sight.

So I ask what it is that you want to achieve by owning the basset horn
parts to any of the six different editions of the Mozart Requiem?

Dan Leeson

Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> I would like to be able to come really familiar with both the Basset
> Hound parts in the Mozart Requiem. That essentially means having my own
> parts. I am not prepared to buy a full orchestral set to do that - nor
> do I want to "borrow" some parts and photocopy them.
>
> Does anyone have a source (preferably in the UK) of orchestral parts for
> one line only? Is it something that one can normally get?
>
> Or is what I am suggesting so weird? And (this is really I suppose
> likely to be Dan or Tony) - if there is more than one version - which is
> the better/best?
>
> I could do them with Sibelius, but seems an awful fiddle. I have the
> full score anyway.
>
> Matthew Lloyd
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