Klarinet Archive - Posting 000550.txt from 2006/03

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Transposed Parts
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:57:32 -0500

I'll give you Berlioz, too, then. I'm really curious to know if
Strauss commented on this in his revision, but I don't have my copy
readily available.

-Adam

At 12:21 PM 3/26/2006, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>Except that this passage is not an abstract passage: it's from the
>section on clarinets where he discusses the different members of the
>clarinet family. See
>http://www.hberlioz.com/Scores/BerliozTreatise.html#Clarinet
>
>I should have included more of the paragraph to make it clear:
>
>"As a general rule players should only use the instruments specified by
>the composer. Since each of these instruments has its own special
>character it is at least likely that the composer chose one rather
>another because he preferred this particular timbre, and not through any
>caprice. To insist, as some virtuoso players do, in transposing and
>playing everything on the B flat clarinet, is therefore with rare
>exceptions a betrayal on the part of the player. This betrayal will be
>even more obvious and reprehensible if it involves, for example, the A
>clarinet [which alone could play a low C sharp]."

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