Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 2005/08

From: X-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Brahms 4th Symphony - 3rd Movement
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:25:44 -0400

I want to thank all those that have offered suggestions and advice on
how to handle the transposing the 3rd movement.

I completely agree that learning sight transposition is a "must learn"
skill and should not be overlooked. I am familiar with how to do this,
but not having done it in quite a long time and on such short notice, I
was looking for temporary solution just to get me through the audition
not being confident enough that I would be able to pull it off.
Especially if this involved some sight-reading from this movement which
is possible. Remember that I am working from excerpts and not the full
part. It is possible they will just give me the part and have me play
from that. One of the things that I have learned is to be prepared as
much in advance for what they may ask in an audition and if you don't
have the full part, get it however you can as soon as you can and work
from that. That way there will not be any surprises. I have no one to
blame but myself if I am not fully prepared.

As it turns out, a very helpful list member had the 3rd movement in
Finale and was able to send me a PDF file transposed for Bb clarinet.
This is, for me, the perfect short term solution and very helpful right
now. With just 2 days left before the audition I can now focus on the
details and have one less thing to be left up in the air so to speak.

Tom Henson

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