Klarinet Archive - Posting 000197.txt from 2009/10

From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Coolest
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:10 -0400

Dan - a well written and very lucid explanation !

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

On Oct 18, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Dan Leeson wrote:

> The note below is the beginning of a slippery slope.
>
> From the note, and the others I read on this topic, it is almost as
> if the player's choice of which clarinet to use is a function of the
> most amenable key signature one can have available to them. So if
> one is playing a work that happens to have the clarinets in a key
> with many sharps, one should transpose the part to a differently
> pitched clarinet to minimize the difficulty. Thus if a part happens
> to call for a clarinet in A playing in 4 sharps, one has the option
> of playing the work in 1 flat on a Clarinet in B-flat.
>
= = = SNIP = = =

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