Klarinet Archive - Posting 000303.txt from 2008/01
From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:14:11 -0500
Looking at a performance part does not mean you are looking at exactly what
the composer wrote. The publishers have a great deal of lattitude with how
the part gets printed. So you cannot say that Mendelssohn chose to use this
or that clarinet based on the printed performance part.
I once played a symphony by a contemporary and living composer. He was at
the performance.
My part was printed as bass clarinet in C in the bass clef. That is not a
transposition with which I was familiar. In fact I had never had one like it
before. So I worked on the part and finally got it in my hands. But when
the composer came for the concert, I cornered him and asked why he would
write the part in that strange way?
His response was, "You mean the publishers printed it that way? I didn't
want that, and expected them to transpose the part for bass clarinet in
B-flat. I wrote it that way because I always write my scores in concert C."
Go figure.
Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph H. Fasel [mailto:jhf@-----.gov]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:03 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
A contribution to the perennial discussion about choice of clarinet for
character vs. key:
I played in a performance of Elijah yesterday and noted that there are a
couple of movements in concert C using Bb clarinets and one in concert
Bb (or maybe g minor--the movement was cut and I didn't look closely)
using clarinets in C.
Cheers,
--Joe
--
Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D.
Process Modeling and Analysis
AET-2, MS F609
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
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