Klarinet Archive - Posting 000304.txt from 2008/01

From: X-CTN-5-MailScanner-jhf@-----.gov
Subj: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:29:40 -0500

Hi Dan,

That occurred to me (that the printed parts don't necessarily reflect
the composer's intent), but I would say that the presence of any C-
clarinet movements at all argues against that.

Cheers,
--Joe

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 08:14 -0800, Daniel Leeson wrote:
> 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
> SKYPE: dnleeson
>
> -----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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