Klarinet Archive - Posting 000149.txt from 2005/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: A bassethorn riddle
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:28:19 -0500

On 6 Feb, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com> wrote:

> At 08:28 PM 2/6/2005 +0000, Tony Pay wrote:

> > > Why else go through the trouble of having the parts?
> > >
> > > The reasoning for basset horns may have simply been a range issue from
> > > the original Bach score.
> >
> > Not at all.
>
> It seems implied in our conversation, but I'll ask outright (please, as
> always, forgive my American ignorance). Do the basset horn parts have any
> notes which fall below the range of a clarinet?

No. Nor do the original oboe da caccia parts, even though they are written
for an instrument in F, fall below the range of the clarinet.

If they did, then obviously the situation would be completely different. Do
you think I wouldn't mention that if it were true?

It might even count as a general priciple about oboes and clarinets. As a
famous passage in Verdi's Falstaff shows, the range even of an ordinary
clarinet extends lower than that of a cor anglais (another oboe in F).

Tony
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