Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2008/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bartok Contrasts' B-flat clarinet part
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:49:52 -0500

But it arises among brass sections all the time. Trumpet players for decades
have in many orchestras been transposing all their parts to C trumpet
*because* of their preference for its tone color. And who has run across a
French horn player who regularly (or ever) plays on the horn indicated in
the part - or even on a plain F horn unless your orchestra plays on period
instruments? Most of the players I know use double (F/B-flat) horns almost
exclusively regardless of the key the part is written for. How many of us
have ever even seen, much less heard, a D or E horn outside of a museum or a
picture in a book?

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:43 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Bartok Contrasts' B-flat clarinet part

... The fact that this problem does not arise for
other woodwinds, allows the clarinet world to conclude that it is perfectly
all right to do as one wishes. Bullshit!

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

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