Klarinet Archive - Posting 000154.txt from 2008/05

From: "reedman" <reedman99@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet transposition
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:59:11 -0400


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From: "Daniel" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Clarinet transposition

> Nitai, if you live near a university that has a good music library, visit
> them and ask if they have copies of the "Mozart Janrbuch." It is
> publication of the Salzburg Mozarteum and you want to see the 1998 issue.
> In that volume, which contains all the technical artices and papers issued
> in 1998, you will find an article authored by Robert Levin and myself
> entitled, "Mozart's Deliberate Use of Incorrect Key Signatures for
> Clarinets."
>
> If you take the time to read that article thoroughly, you will understand
> how and under what circumstances the clarinet became a transposing
> instrument.
>
> If you do not leave near a large, good quality music library, you may have
> to ask help to get the volume on Inter Library Loan. If that does not
> work,
> contact me directly and I will make a copy of the article for you, though
> it
> will not be free.
>
> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clarni bass [mailto:clarnibass@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:01 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Clarinet transposition
>
>
> Hello
>
> I'm interested to know why/how, historically, the
> clarinet became a transposed instrument (the regular
> Bb soprano clarinet).
>
> Since I have no idea really I am guessing either the
> first was in C, and because there is a family of
> instrument others are necessarily transposed, and the
> Bb for some reason "survived" the most.
>
> Or the first was already transposed, and was decided
> to be this way because of the keys most common in that
> time compared with the fingerings?
>
> Or maybe some other reason I haven't considered, but
> I'm pretty sure it had to be a concious decision at
> some point.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nitai
>
>
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