Klarinet Archive - Posting 000292.txt from 2006/03

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] K622 orchestral parts
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:17:31 -0500

I need to become a better practical psychologist because in addition
to what Joe posts, in part:

For starters, we as players have a great interest in there being
>superior editions of works. How many of us would not give time and
>energy to a project to create a fine score and parts of K622, if in
>return that edition was truly free and open, not (just) in the sense of
>cost but more importantly in the sense of distribution and ability to
>create derivative works (such as creating an A horn part if it's not
>provided)?

it would be nice from time to time when I give a full set of parts of
something I've sequenced to an orchestra or band director that I
would be able to hear the thing sight read just once. I LOVE to play
the Bruch fully orchestrated double concerto with my computer, but
the full set of parts which I was assured would be cherished and used
is now sitting unused in a high school orchestra library. I was able
to twist the arm of my community band director just once to sight
read Il Convegno for two clarinets and band. Of the three concertos
I did by Rimsky Korsakov, our band has never sight read the oboe
concerto, nor "The Elephant and the Fly," duet for piccolo, tuba and
band by Henri Kling.

All that is by way of saying that when you finish what you feel to be
a good rendition of some work otherwise in the public domain and
perhaps out of print I think perhaps the best thing to do with it,
unless you have the golden touch, is to target some music library and
make your version of the work a gift to it.

When I discovered the Bouffil duet for clarinet and harp in Case X
(rare manuscripts) of UC Berkeley some years ago I ordered a
microfilm of the work, created the new edition and almost as an
afterthought sent the two parts and score to the librarian who had
helped me in the first place. While looking for something else a
while after that I discovered that Berkeley had retired the Case X
item (published in 1820 something) and substituted my edition.

That may be the strategy which offers the greatest
satisfaction. Just a thought from a philanthropist on a beer budget.

Oliver

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