Klarinet Archive - Posting 000470.txt from 2005/08

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Low Eb in Brahms Symphony
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:48:57 -0400

Tom, we really want to know how was your audition, did you play the 3rd movement at all?
Sarah

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> From: Tom.Henson@-----.com
> Subject: RE: [kl] Low Eb in Brahms Symphony
> Sent: 26 Aug '05 21:41
>
> 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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