Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2008/12

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta, again
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:03:27 -0500

More important than your Mea Culpa is for you to know exactly what Mozart
specified.

The autograph reads "Contra Basso" and even if the instrument were not
specifically identified on the first page of each of the 7 movements, there
are several cases of "pizzicato" and "arco," which implicitly states that
the 16 foot bass is a string bass not a wind bass.

I don't object when someone prefers to use a contrabassoon. What I do
object to are statements that maintain the instrumental substitution was
Mozart's idea.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:14 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Gran Partitta, again

>I don't know. If you say it isn't, it isn't.
>
> Mea Culpa.
>
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: 17 December 2008 21:00
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta, again
>
> Matthew,
>
> From where did you get the information that "The double bass" part was
> originally for contrabassoon anyway."
>
> Dan Leeson
>
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