Klarinet Archive - Posting 000311.txt from 2005/07

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wind Band Music: Solo Clarinet vs. Clarinet 4
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:16:20 -0400

Interesting.

I think I am going to going to use Clarinet 1-4, since my hope would be
that the parts would be split as evenly as possible. Essentially, the 1st
and 2nd clarinets are functioning as Violin 1 and 2 and the 3rd and 4th are
functioning as Clarinet 1/Viola and 2/Cello (there are plenty of exceptions
to this, of course). I didn't consider that the fourth part is more likely
to be split amongst the "normal" 3rd players, this has not been my
experience playing in wind bands, but most of my wind band playing was done
before I thought of such things.

As a composer, Bb Clarinet 1-4 almost seems to me more logical in general
for wind band compositions. But I'm one of those terrible people who is
prejudiced against the alto clarinet. Forgive me!

Thanks (everyone) for your thoughts,

-Adam

At 02:42 PM 7/27/2005, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>I think that if you use Solo and First clarinet, the parts are likely to
>be divided among the first clarinet players. If you use 1-4 the third and
>forth parts are more likely to be divided among the regular third clarinet
>players. Perhaps this will give you some guidance.
>
>Have you considered using divisi in 1-3 parts to archive what you want?

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