Klarinet Archive - Posting 000513.txt from 2006/03

From: "Doug Potter" <doug@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Transposed Parts
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:48:01 -0500

Which might explain why the part for the Moldau I found on "The Orchestra
Musician's CD-ROM Library" was in C, Bb, and A. However the part our
orchestra has is in Bb - although whoever transposed it incorrectly left the
"muta en A" in before the end section.

But, alas, we have no such transposition for the Symphonic Variations.

I think some of you are a bit harsh on those who don't know about C
clarinets (or the even more obscure instruments mentioned). Perhaps for
professional musicians or those who studied music in college, it might be
appropriate - but I don't believe playing the clarinet is limited to those
people. People who refuse to be educated (such as the conductor in the Dan
Leeson story) seem more appropriate for such scorn.

Doug
http://ConicWave.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Shilcock
[mailto:roger.shilcock@-----.uk]
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:11 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Transposed Parts

The Symphonic Variations are based on a Czech folk-tune - I won't give the
title, as I can't do the diacritics on this keyboard. Given that by the mid-
nineteenth century the C clarinet had become a folk instrument in Bohemia,
it
seems likely that Dvorak wanted an association with this tradition. Smetana
used the C a lot, too; one of the reasons our amateur orchestra decided not
to
play his "Sarka" was the difficulty of the C clarinet parts - also one of my

reasons for buying a C.
Roger S.

In message <002901c64f79$8521cda0$9f091cac@-----.com>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> But, alas, we have no C clarinet players in our orchestra. And just to
show
> our true ignorance, neither the other clarinet players nor our conductor
> knew C clarinets existed.
>
> So we could debate (as we have before) how important it is to play what
the
> composer intended as opposed to what the player does - but in this case,
we
> need Bb or A transpositions so we can play it at all. We could also sight
> transpose it - but that would be much harder and the effect would be the
> same.
>
> Doug
> http://ConicWave.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Shilcock
> [mailto:roger.shilcock@-----.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 4:32 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Transposed Parts
>
>
> .... but C clarinet is clearly what he wanted.
> Roger S.
>
>
> > Great resource.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to Dvorak's Symphonic Variations transposed for Bb
or
> A?
> > The parts we have are in C (with a little Bb).
> >
> > Doug
> > http://ConicWave.net
> >
>
>
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