Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2006/10

From: <acanabou@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] All-State TMEA
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:08:21 -0400

Hi Myrna:

You've been observant and asked some good questions. Here are the answers
to your questions:

The turn is written incorrectly. It should be played with a B natural
despite what is written. Because this section of the music
is in a major key (B-flat) we would expect the turn to have a whole step on
the top and a half tone down (a leading tone) on the bottom. In a minor
key, we might have a turn with a half step on top and a whole step on the
bottom. It would sound very strange to have a turn with either two half
steps or two whole steps. Any sensitive musician will tell you to play B
natural in this case.

In bar 28, the natural signs have been left out. The passage is a chromatic
scale from high to the d on beat 3 of mm 28. From there the music turns
into a g-minor scale as it heads to the trill and the cadence in g minor in
mm. 29.

The Artistic Studies are an edition of the Rose Etudes used in virtually
every college clarinet studio. There etudes are full of errors; David Hite
found most of them but made a few of his own in the process. And I hate
most of the phrase markings he has added.

Hope this helps. Were in Texas are you? With whom are you studying?

Sincerely,
Andre Canabou, 2nd Clarinetist Boise Philharmonic
M.M. in Music, Northwestern University
Clarinet Instructor, Plano Texas

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