Klarinet Archive - Posting 000443.txt from 2004/05

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rosen on text and performance
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:25:03 -0400

Allen, your point is excellent. The problem arises when there
are shades of nuance. Everybody agrees that one should use horns
and not tenor saxes. Fewer will agree if we substitute E-flat
clarinets and English horns. As we get down to nuance, (A
clarinets instead of B-flat clarinets, etc.) the problem becomes
severe because there is no unanimity of opinion, and that is
based on the presumption that the difference between clarinet
pitches is not significantly noticeable.

So one way to address the problem is to say "Original
instruments or death." But then players will rebel.

It is not a trivial issue.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Levin [mailto:alevin@-----.net]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:07 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Rosen on text and performance

If I'm paying to hear a Beethoven symphony, that darn well better
be what I
hear - not a reorchestration. (I seem to recall that he added
an Eb
soprano clarinet to the 9th.) If I'm paying to hear an
orchestration of
Mussorgsky, I understand that it is such, and all I want to know
is whether
it is the Ravel orchestration or the Stokowski orchestration.

>Presumably Mahler didn't want the composer's sound when he did
the
>reorchestration. Does this, by itself, make the changes 'good'
or
>'bad'?

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