Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 2005/08

From: X-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Low Eb in Brahms Symphony
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:43:06 -0400

Actually, all the other movements in the Brahms 4th symphony are in A
for A clarinet. No written Bb parts.

Tom Henson

Ken Shaw wrote:

<< The only way to find out is to examine the manuscript. If Brahms, in
the other movements, wrote the clarinet lines a step higher, for the Bb
instrument, that would be good evidence that he when he wrote at C
pitch, he wanted the C clarinet. If he wrote all the lines in C, that
would be good evidence that the copyist forgot to transpose it. >>

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