Klarinet Archive - Posting 000412.txt from 2005/08
From: "Bob Langford" <rlang2000tj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms 4th Symphony - 3rd Movement
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:17:05 -0400
Hey Tom, - Smartscore is a music scanning program. If the original is
excellent and you have a scanner type recommended by Musitek, you can scan
the music in, then transpose it. I own a copy and I must admit I don't get
very good results especially if the music has been printed on a dot matrix
printer or the music print is not clear.
What's worse is I don't have a scanner on their 'approved' list (I own a
Visoneer 920 USB). www.musitek.com is where you can download a demo.
Note that the demo won't allow you to print or save anything. But, you can
scan some music and see if it'll work for you. -
Bob L.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tom.Henson@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: [kl] Brahms 4th Symphony - 3rd Movement
Hello all,
I have an orchestral audition that came up on very short notice for a
principal clarinet position and one of the things that they want to hear
are some excepts from the 4th Symphony by Brahms which will be on their
first concert.
I have the Hadcock "The Working Clarinetist" which contains quite a few
excerpts from this piece. It looks like all the movements except the 3rd
is written for A clarinet. The 3rd movement is written in C. However,
according to Peter Hadcock notes, nobody plays the 3rd movement on a C
clarinet because it goes down to a low Eb and we all know that this is
not normally possible. He suggests to play the 3rd movement on a Bb
instead. I don't want to get into a discussion about why Brahms would
not have known this, but suffice to say that I will have to also play it
on a Bb clarinet as suggested in this book.
Now, my question is what do most clarinetist do when faced with having
to transpose an entire movement or even an entire piece. I know in the
past, with a lack of computers and other technology, you were expected
to just transpose in your head or write out the part long hand. Is this
still the practice, or is there some other way to accomplish this? Maybe
using a program like Sibelius?
I was given only one week to prepare for this audition, and just don't
want to take a chance on sight transposition. The music itself is not a
problem, its just how to go about transposing the best way. Any
suggestions or practical advice would be much appreciated.
Tom Henson
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