Klarinet Archive - Posting 000132.txt from 2009/08

From: "Doug Potter" <doug@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinets in F
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:06:28 -0400

Sorry, Dan.

In the previous item, Mr. Wakeling suggested you would be upset at =
Berlioz's description:

The basset-horn differs from the alto clarinet in low F only by having =
the added little brass bell extending its lower end by its faculty to =
descend chromatically to C, a third lower than the lowest note of the =
clarinet.

What Mr. Wakeling didn't point out was the further comment:

Mozart used this beautiful instrument in two voices to darken the color =
of the harmony in his Requiem; he also assigned to it some important =
solos in his opera "La Clemenza di Tito" - and employed it in wonderful =
combinations in his "Entfuehrung aus dem Serail" and especially in the =
solemn arias of Sarastro in "Die Zauberfloete." The basset-horns are =
suitable as soft middle voices and for filling in the harmony, ...

Again, sorry for accepting Mr. Wakeling's anticipation of your response.

Doug
http://ConicWave.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]=20
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:49 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinets in F

Doug, which Dan are you talking about. I don't remember making any =
comments,=20
positive or negative about any document. The only negative comment I =
made=20
on this list for the past month was to make a disparaging remark about=20
Richard Franko Goldman's arrangement of the Mendelssohn piece for modern =

bank. I think I said that it was turgid.

So what you are hanging on me?

Dan Leeson
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Doug Potter" <doug@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Clarinets in F

Regardless of what Dan thinks, this is a wonderful document. I've =
always=20
wondered about many of the details on various instruments - and here =
they=20
are. I especially liked the comments on bowing (why do we need someone =
to=20
mark bowing on top of what the composer wanted?).

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