Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2008/04

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Shameless plug (was: [kl] Woodwind Quintet music)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:45:54 -0400

Curtis Bennett wrote,
>Anyone have a list of sites with good, free woodwind quintet
>music(stuff in the grade 4-5 range, mostly). Even better if its
> in .sib format so I can play with it if I need to.
>
>I'm scouring sibeliusmusic for stuff, but it's tedious, and it's not
>easy separating the wheat from the chaff. Any other sites are
>appreciated.

More chaff, maybe, but as of last week, I now have a Sibelius web site again
and, since I'm an amateur in need of free instruction, oops, I mean an
aspiring professional in need of feedback, the music can be heard and
printed out free of charge. (Negative feedback is welcome, btw--if I'm
messing up, I'd like to know!) My music is in modern classical style, but
fuddy-duddy, oops, I mean melodic, rather than atonal. If you don't already
have Scorch, the site will ask to download it to you. Scorch is a small
program that's safe to download (no crapware attached). It allows you to
see, hear and print out the music online.

One of the pieces I've posted so far, "Upside Down, Inside Out," is a
woodwind quintet that I think would be accessible to students.

A new woodwind quintet, "Hecate, Queen of the Night," will go online within
the next couple of days, but that one is more difficult (most of it is an
Allegro in Macedonian 7/8 time) and in addition to the winds, it also
requires two good percussionists, on marimba and timpani.

I put some clarinet music on the site right away, because I re-registered
the page in response to a private inquiry from a member of this list.
(Shadow Cat is sitting over there by the lamp and glaring at me. I wonder
why?) Two of those clarinet pieces are new, marked with asterisks:

*"Dancing with Ghillie Dhu" (clarinet choir plus percussion, a version of
what was originally a solo piano piece, about 3 minutes long, with optional
parts for substitutions)

*"Fibonacci's Dance" (deceptively simple beginning, but this is a difficult
concert and contest piece for bass clarinet with piano accompaniment, about
6 minutes, designed to use the whole range and most of the basic techniques,
with brief excursions above the staff)

"Metamorphosis" (clarinet quintet with optional substitutions--the
metamorphosis of Luna moths, not Kafka!)

"The Mysterious Barricades" (my only transcription, of a F. Couperin
harpsichord piece, adapted for clarinet quartet and newly revised with
optional substitutions/additions for clarinet choir)

"We Are the Martians, Too" (a 2008 revision of my 2004 adaptation for
clarinet choir and timpani--the original "We Are the Martians," a brass
quintet, is also on the site)

As some of you know, I removed my music from this site in 2004 because I
object to some of the wording in Sibelius Music's mandatory "Terms and
Conditions." That contract remains in force, but I decided to give in
because agreeing was the only way I could upgrade from one of the earliest
versions of the program to the latest version--an excellent upgrade,
btw--and as long as I was abandoning my principles I might as well go ahead
and make an ass of myself in public again, oops, I mean humbly display my
creative offerings to the public again, too.

Right now, the e-mailable direct link into my web page is broken (I'll post
a note here when the webmaster helps me fix it), so the best way in is
through the site's main page,
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com
On the right-hand side of the page is a "Browse by composers" feature. Go
to "L"--oops, I mean click on the letter "L"--scroll down the list of
composers from L, and click on "Loban".

Lelia Loban

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