Klarinet Archive - Posting 000980.txt from 2004/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Appealing to the superficial
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:48:01 -0500

You are working apples and oranges. Military bands require
uniformity of instrumentation. They serve a specific military
purpose and generally do not serve as a cultural organization
that can afford to be more investigative. So a standard
instrumentation for navy bands is very sensible.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia A. Smith [mailto:arlyss1@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 2:26 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Appealing to the superficial

Dan Leeson wrote:

>The band doesn't have to have saxophones. There aren't any in
the
>Mendelssohn Overture for Band (though there is a basset horn
>part). So the fact that there are no saxes in the Wellington's
>Victory fugue is nothing special.
>
>

Ooh, I wish someone had told whoever did the original
instrumentation
design for Navy bands THIS! Talk about a huge improvement over
what I
recall coping with for nearly fourteen years worth of ceremonial
band work:

Three or four trumpets, Two alto saxophones, two tenor
saxophones, two
or three trombones, one euphonium (if we were lucky) one tuba, a
snare
drum, a bass drum, one piccolo, three clarinets....

I'm completely serious.

Patricia Smith

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