Klarinet Archive - Posting 000500.txt from 2003/10

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] It's the little things that make me happy
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:09:45 -0400

Up to about 5 minutes ago I had been saying that Mozart never wrote a
low d-flat for a basset horn (or a basset clarinet, for that matter, but
that is much more problematic). And then, as I was preparing a set of
parts for a performance of the six notturni, I came to "Se lontan, ben
mio, tu sei," K. 438 that is scored for 2 B-flat clarinets, 1 basset
horn in F (he also calls for one in G in these 6 pieces), and three singers.

There in m. 7, as big as life, is a low d-flat.

As I said, it is the little things in life that make me happy.

Would you belive it? A low d-flat. Remarkable.

Dan
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