Klarinet Archive - Posting 000177.txt from 2008/03

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Leopold and Wolfgang
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:13:50 -0400

I believe the Ravel orchestration is still in copyright.

Gary
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Doug Potter wrote:
> What Keith said.
>
> Sometimes they have exactly what you need (e.g. the Beethoven seem right).
> Sometimes not: Mussorgsky's Pictures has an orchestration by someone other
> than Ravel.
>
> Doug
> http://ConicWave.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:16 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] RE: Leopold and Wolfgang
>
>
>> Speaking of which, does anyone have any experience with the Orchestra
> Musician's Library? They sell CD-Roms that have the clarinet (or violin or
> trumpet, etc.) parts for several works, that you can print out from your
> computer. It seems to be more for study purposes than for actually using in
> performance. The one I'm looking at (on Sheet Music Plus) has several of
> Mozart's symphonies and opera overtures, as well as several pieces by Haydn.
> I was wondering if anyone knows how accurate they are.
>
> My pro-am orchestra uses it for much of its repertoire. The editions are
> old, and in public domain. So it will vary, from pretty good (for editions
> prepared when the autograph score was known) to terrible (as with the Gran
> Partitta K361, where the old editions were made when the score was
> unavailable for over a century). Our conductor goes through the parts with
> an Urtext score (where one exists) and modifies them accordingly. We've just
> done Schubert Unfinished, and it took him some hours of modifications
> (mainly because there has been much understanding of the way Schubert wrote
> accents/diminuendi since the early editions). It was a treat to perform the
> corrected version. Anyway, for Mozart, you have the complete Neue Mozart
> Ausgabe online for free, so if you are prepared to do the work, by which you
> will also gain much understanding, it is a cheap solution. Mostly it is
> articulation and phrasing that you need to check.
>
>
>
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