Klarinet Archive - Posting 000476.txt from 2004/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb Players Beware!
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:19:44 -0400

At 11:43 PM 9/26/2004 -0700, Diane Karius wrote:
>If you play Eb soprano clarinet and are handed the Eb
>clarinet part to a piece called "Aurora" by Thomas
>Doss, run!
>
>If you attempt to play the same version I just tried
>to play, you will find:
>
>1. The part calls for low notes your clarinet doesn't
>play (didn't even phase me - seen it often enough on
>Bb, just never on Eb).
>2. The Eb soprano part doubles the tuba and bass
>clarinet for half the piece...
>3. The harmony is REALLY interesting...
>4. Your part has 41 extra measures in the first half
>of the piece, is missing 15 measures in the second
>half of the piece (part of which is a repeat with
>first, second, and third endings), and has 7 extra
>measures in the last quarter of the piece to make sure
>you are lost throughout the entire piece...
>
>And in case you decide to check your part against the
>score, well... The score (not condensed) doesn't show
>an Eb soprano clarinet part, despite the fact that you
>will be holding an Eb part in your hot, sweaty little
>fist!
>
>As best I can figure out, pgs. 1 and 3 might be a real
>Eb clarinet part... but pgs. 2 and 4 of the part are,
>in fact, the Bb bass clarinet part (and no, it hasn't
>been transposed for the Eb).

Perhaps the ignoramuses did not recognize the difference between Eb ALTO
and Eb SOPRANO, among other things?

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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