Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 2008/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] 8 #'s?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:50:28 -0500

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:51:48 +0100, "danyel" <rab@-----.de> wrote:
> It's quite possible that clarinettists are the kind of people to appreciate
> the difference between sharps and flats. If I wouldn't have played other
> instruments....
> In general practice, I would too the composer spelled Ab rather than G#, let
> alone B# or Dbb. Yet it makes a difference to some

There is a medley of Broadway tunes for concert band called "Bright
Lights On Broadway" that demonstrates this. In "There's No Business
Like Show Business," there is a section where it modulates into concert
A major, where the words say "everything about it is appealing". This
is a simple ascending scale, from one note below the tonic up through
the tonic above. Instead of writing it for clarinet in B major with 5
sharps as a B major scale, they left it in Bb major with accidentals:
Bb, B, C#, Eb, E, F#, Ab, Bb, B. Every time I see it, I have to force
myself to think "this is just a B major scale".

Maybe all those years of piano have made me more tolerant of odd key
signatures, but I'm offended that they felt I was too dumb to handle
advanced concepts like A# and D#.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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