Klarinet Archive - Posting 000494.txt from 2004/04
From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Inconsiderate sheet music publishers (was: Next performance program)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:42:03 -0400
Hi Claudia,
I've played that arrangement of "Star Wars". Nasty pages turns, made worse by a
big old D.S. al Coda that involves another impossible page turn to the first
page, followed by yet another impossible jump to the coda. I cut the page at
the "D.S. al Coda", inserted a copy of the music from the D.S. up to the coda
sign, then appended the coda to that. This allowed me to read it straight
through. I then taped all the pages together in booklet form (I was able to
perform enough surgery on the part to make it all fit in 8-1/2 X 11). I found
that for the remaining impossbile page turns, I could cut the page in a
strategic place, allowing me to turn the top half of the page while reading the
bottom half; then turning the bottom half when convenient (while I was reading
the top half of the next page). It was certainly elaborate, and my fellow
players thought I was nuts, but at the same time I was the only one not
struggling with page turns.
Considering that most sheet music is pretty expensive, I find it reprehensible
that publishers don't go to greater lengths to provide convenient page turns;
then they add insult to injury with the usual threats about making copies of
the parts. My other pet peeve with publishers is printing music for small
chamber groups in score format, but providing only one copy.
Some publications that set *good* examples (I'm sure there are more):
- Lendvay's "Respectfully Yours, Mr. Goodman" for unaccompanied clarinet has a
fold-out page so you can see three pages at once where you would otherwise have
a bad page turn.
- The "Three American Miniatures" for flute and clarinet by John Rutter has a
fold-out page for the 3rd piece. But it loses points for being in score format
and coming with only one copy.
- The "Miniature Suite for Clarinet and Viola" by Gordon Jacob has a nasty page
turn in one of the movements, but then the publisher was kind enough to include
a separate copy of that page so you could spread out the three pages. The piece
is printed in score form, but exta points to the publisher for providing a copy
for both players (and each copy comes with that extra sheet).
- The Brahms quintet from Henle includes a fold-out page in the clarinet part
that makes reading the first and second movements more convenient.
- Rayner Brown's "Symphony" for clarinet choir avoids nasty page turns by
putting less music on each page so that the page can be turned where there is
at least one measure of rests. This piece also comes with two copies of the Bb
parts, but loses points for poor print quality (honest to goodness, there are
tons of places where half notes are nearly filled in, making it hard to
distinguish them from quarter notes).
OK, now that's out of my system. :-)
Regards,
Andy
--- "Zornow, Claudia" <claudia.zornow@-----.com> wrote:
> Is that the arrangement by Burden? My orchestra played it in January.
> Great arrangement. The page turns in the clarinet part were impossible,
> though. I ended up copying the pages, cutting them up, and pasting them
> to sheets cut from an 11x14 manila folder.
>
> Claudia
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