Klarinet Archive - Posting 000568.txt from 2006/03

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Let's get real (was Transposed Parts)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:55:57 -0500

On Monday 27 Mar 2006 01:25, Adam Michlin wrote:
[ snip ]
> As an example, I'm told that John Paynter's transcription of Debussy's
> Orchestral Nocturne "Fetes" uses Bb clarinet throughout, a cruel and
> unusual punishment in my mind.

I'm sure some of the arrangements for military band of classical works,
which we used to play in my RAF days, were transposed up or down a
semitone into keys that were easier for Bb and Eb instruments. I'm
thinking of the sort of arrangements churned out for series like
"Chappell's Army Journal", but it's too long ago for me to remember
specific examples.

No end to the blasphemy - not only the wrong instrument, but the wrong
key as well!

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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