Klarinet Archive - Posting 000310.txt from 2008/01

From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:03:49 -0500

I have transposed C clarinet parts many times. Having the advantage of
owning a C clarinet with a good mouthpiece I can tell you when the whole
section is playing on a C clarinet for a written C clarinet part it is quite
a unique sound. I must believe that some composers actually wanted that
sound. I have recorded the Caprice for C Clarinet and can say that the sound
is worth the work of maintaining another instrument.

Mike Vaccaro
www.MikeVaccaro.Com
www.VaccaroandStevensWoodwinds.Com
www.MamdMMouthpieces.Com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:38 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets

> That depends on both the publisher and the date of the publication. C
> clarinets were in common use all the way through the last half of the 19th
> century and into the 20th. I don't know when publishers started
> transposing
> clarinet parts for the convenience of those who could not transpose, but I
> suspect it is a 20th century practice, say from the 1930's. But that is a
> guess.
>
> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
> SKYPE: dnleeson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph H. Fasel [mailto:jhf@-----.gov]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:30 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
>
>
> 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
>
>
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