Klarinet Archive - Posting 000660.txt from 2004/08

From: Allen Levin <alevin@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Knowing the music --- one step too far ??
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:54:37 -0400

In high school I wanted to learn orchestration and composition. I could
not find anyone here to teach them; but my band director loaned me a
booklet with the ranges of many instruments and the customary
transpositions and notations for them. (I wish that I still had it.) I
began by transcribing several Mozart divertimenti; then I arranged the 2nd
movement of the Beethoven 5th Symphony for concert band. It was somewhat
crude - but complete. To this day, I do not have to look at the scores of
that music. I heard one of the divertimenti on the radio a couple weeks
ago. I still know it after 40 years.

At 10:10 AM 8/24/04 -0700, you wrote:
>When I really want to learn a piece of music so well that I
>almost have it in my genetic structure, I copy it, note by note.

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