Klarinet Archive - Posting 000436.txt from 2005/06

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] K. 581
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:21:51 -0400

On 23 Jun, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> Unless I am seriously out of the mainstream, I don't think there
> exists a published edition of K. 581 to be played by basset
> clarinet.

You're right, there appears to be nothing that suggests where the low notes
might be used.

> If that is a true statement, it would seem to leave any player who
> attempted the work on basset clarinet to create his/her own edition. "Look
> ma. We can use the basset notes here and here and just about every other
> measure."

But *of course* it leaves that to any such player.

The checks and balances consist just of the fact that very many of those
usages wouldn't make sense, either arguably to a past audience, or actually
to a present audience.

(And why wouldn't ma of either period understand that as well as anyone?-)

> I wonder why 581 has been of less interest to players than 622 for which a
> half dozen reconstructions for basset horn exist.

Well, it's been just as much interest to *me*, even though the evidence for
the use of a basset clarinet in it is circumstantial.

Or perhaps my interest is not to be measured by the number of *bloody
reconstructions* by *bloody editors* that are available to me;-)

Tony
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