Klarinet Archive - Posting 000430.txt from 2005/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Edison recordings
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:37:16 -0500

Ed, was Star and Stripes Forever really originally in D-G? The standard band
version (since I first played it 40 or so years ago) is Eb-Ab, but
orchestras I've played in always play in D-G. I always assumed the Eb
version was the original and that the orchestra version migrated to D
because it's easier than flats for school string players (who, at least in
the U.S., generally begin with D major and sometimes never get comfortable
with flats).

Was D-G there first?

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:05 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] RE: Edison recordings
>
>
> For example, the recording of "Stars and Stripes
> Forever" is at about 132 beats per minute, and as a result it is in the
> keys of E Major and A Major, rather then the original D and G. If
> slowed to the tempo that Sousa would have taken, which would have been
> no faster than 120, the keys would be correct, and the instruments would
> sound more like what actually would have been heard in the beginning.
>
> Ed Lacy
> University of Evansville

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