Klarinet Archive - Posting 000637.txt from 2003/08

From: "Thiel, Mark" <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] quintets
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:42:36 -0400

Ragnhild K. Brekke wrote:
>I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for clarinet quintet music?

The ever-reliable Mr Voxman has a set of books "Clarinet Choir Repertoire"
which is actually for quintet (3 Bb, bass and either alto or a fourth Bb)
and has a lot of quite good stuff in it. My quintet has accumulated quite a
bit of music for quintet, but I can't say we have any one good source -- we
tend to snap up arrangements for this instrumentation whenever we see it --
in stores, on line, etc. We also do some of our own arranging.

One thing to watch out for, we've seen some "quintet" arrangements whre the
alto doubles the bass note for note. Worse yet, I've seen "clarinet choir"
arrangements with only 4 real parts -- the Alto, Bass, Contraalto and
Contrabass are identical or in octaves and the Eb is the same as the first.

Mark Thiel

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