Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] A bassethorn riddle
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:21:33 -0500

Now that's a terrific question and I admit that I am stumped.
Every avenue I took wound up at a dead end.

At first I did think of the Levin edition of the Requiem because
one section, the Sanctus, calls for clarinets (and Levin did that
because of my pointing out that the key signature of 3 sharps was
a violation of the clarinet key signature rule).

Then I took the hint of the "superlative religious work of the
musical canon" but what I came up with in terms of the Bach
Passions are works written long before either clarinets or basset
horns were used.

There is also the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, but no bassets in
that one either.

And the fact that you are playing on period instruments alludes
to the possibility that the work is pre 1800. After all, who is
going to use a period instrument for a Ligetti piece?

I'm stumped.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:17 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] A bassethorn riddle

OK, here's a riddle for you.

Tomorrow, I'm playing on period instruments in a performance of a
major
choral piece -- actually, I'm playing in a performance on period
instruments of what is arguably *the* superlative religious work
of the
musical canon.

There are parts for bassethorns. Yet, we're playing them on Bb
clarinets
with completely clear consciences.

How can this be?

To put a finer point on it, how dare I confess to it on this
list, of all
places?-)

Tony
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