Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2008/03
From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Leopold and Wolfgang
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:25:33 -0400
There are five different orchestrations of the Pictures at an Ex. Jason
Klein, who got his doctorate from Stanford, wrote his dissertation on the
various orchestrations of the Moussorgsky.
Dan Leeson
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From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:14 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Leopold and Wolfgang
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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