Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 2005/12

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] music selection
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:14:27 -0500

Hi Patton,

Well, yes. My nephew, the KUSC program host, sent me his sequenced version
of Mozart's K.464 A Major string quartet a couple of years ago, saying that
it seemed to him that it would work with winds. Cheapskate that he is (not
a lot unlike me -- it runs in the family), he used the most recent free
version of the Finale program (Noteworthy? Notepad? Can't remember) to
sequence it. Anyway, I was sufficiently intrigued to buy the Finale
Version 2003 upgrade to give it a shot. Also, sequencing things is so
labor intensive that it makes good sense to do what needs to be done to get
access to pieces of interest. There was also his on-air crack once that
before Beethoven composed his A Major quartet, he got hold of Mozart's and
"decomposed" it, just to find out how Mozart had done it. As apocryphal as
that story might be, I would say that except perhaps for one movement which
has a lot of ticky-tack stuff done naturally by strings but not much fun
for clarinets, I find the quartet to be a delight for live players. Give
it a try.

The version on my Web page

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

has been transposed so that with no key signature, four A clarinets can do
it in the original key! Bb for all the rest of you!! 8-)

Oliver

At 03:52 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
>Howdy all,
>
>Working on quartet music and was hoping to illicit
>some unique responses.
>
>For a quartet, are there any string quartets that are
>not mainstream but that would sound pretty cool on
>Clarinets.
>
>Thanks

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org