Klarinet Archive - Posting 000309.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Quintets
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:54:47 -0500

It doesn't bother me if you like or don't like a piece like the
Reger, though its instrumentation is what he was asking for. But
what you propose is a violation of music, as if what was
requested by the composer doesn't matter, that the character of a
piece of music can be altered at will and at whim by arbitrary
and senseless changes of instrumentation. It is simply
disrespectful of what a composer does. That you don't seem to be
able to see the difference between your suggestion and mine is
part of the problem.

If you don't like the Reger, that's your call but if you suggest
playing it with a ukelele, an accordion. and three trombones
because that is what you have available, I'd figure that you
really don't much care about music.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:42 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Quintets

Ah, well, Dan. My opinion of the Reger quintet is that it could
be played
backwards without hearing any difference. To each his own, my
friend.

Oliver

At 02:54 PM 2/21/2005, you wrote:
>To even consider playing the basset horn part on the second
>violin is an idea that is so bad that I can't find words that
are
>printable to speak of it. Have you no respect for the composer,
>the sound character, or the idea of the instrumentation
>established by Mozart? One might just as well suggest a tenor
>sax in place of the cello.
>
>Dan Leeson
>DNLeeson@-----.net
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
>Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:48 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Re: Clarinet Quintets
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>The Mozart Quintet for Bb clarinet, F bassett horn and string
>trio
>(unfinished fragment, K.V. Anhang 90) is on my Web page. You'd
>have to
>transpose the F Bassett horn to Violin 2 and that might not work
>very well,
>but it is a charming one-movement piece and well worth playing.
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>Oliver
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>http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm
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