Klarinet Archive - Posting 000209.txt from 2004/09

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Solo recommendations for an almost beginner?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:26:10 -0400

The exact title is "Six Studies in English Folk-Song." There is no opus
number indicated, but my copy is published by Stainer & Bell and shows a
1927 copyright. I've never found them easy to play, however, although simply
playing the notes is certainly not hard. They are wonderful pieces, but the
demands of phrasing, legato and breath control make these little gems much
more difficult than they look (or sound at first hearing). They were
composed for cello, then included in "alternative versions" for violin,
viola and clarinet - guess which is the only one for which breathing is
actually a survival issue. :-)

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Wood [mailto:instruments@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 11:15 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Solo recommendations for an almost beginner?
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>
>
> I recently heard these Vaughn Williams settings of English folk tunes -
> I think 6 different ones for Clarinet. Most were meditative, slow- and
> non-sectarian, and open spaced in voicing enough to leave the clarinet
> room to be heard-without too much danger of over exposure.
>
> The harmony was fairly simple four part, slightly modal.- so a keyboard
> or an organ could easily play (if transcribed from orch.) or a
> competent accompanist could easily "head arrange" them at sight. They
> were short enough so one or two or three could be assembled to fill the
> desired time slot.
>
> The Opus numbers weren't given- perhaps someone who knows them might
> help fill that information in?
>
> Bob Wood
>
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