Klarinet Archive - Posting 000264.txt from 2005/04

From: Tony Pay <tony_pay@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Francaix (was: The test results)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:16:15 -0400


--- Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net> wrote:

> What is so difficult about playing a work in the key of B?

Well, nothing is 'so difficult', of course.

It's just that you either have to lower your standards of what is possible in
making the piece sound natural, or practise a good deal more than the piece is
worth (in the case of the Francaix, in my opinion).

I'd say, for example, that playing the Schubert Offertorium in the relatively
untaxing key of D major on the Bb clarinet, instead of playing it in C major on
the C clarinet, makes the piece sound much less innocently natural, however
good a player you are.

> Surely the key of C "lays easier" for the developing student, but I have
> found that after much time and practice (45 years) just play whatever is in
> front of you. I would doubt that Ricardo Morales would balk at seeing a piece
> written in B.

I don't know what 'balking' consists of, but if he doesn't know the difference
between what is gratuitously against the natural scale of the instrument and
what isn't, then he's less of a player than I assume he is, judging by the
number of times that his name crops up here.

I have no assumptions one way or the other about your abilities. However, that
you say you 'just play whatever is in front of you' makes me wonder.

Tony

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