Klarinet Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 2009/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:46:33 -0500

That is probably true. Even the best of us would find it difficult to
create a usable harp part. And clarinets are particularly bummered up
because of the added complexity of being a transposing instrument.

I once played a Sousa piece (don't remember which one, but it was a suite of
some sort) that called for a low D on the bass clarinet. It was a perfectly
good note, but I think that Sousa may have been uncertain about the lower
limits of a clarinet.

Dan Leeson
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From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part

>I think that many times orchestrators and composers don't know what our
>instruments do or sometimes even the range. I run across this quite often
>even with fine composer/orchestrators.
> Mike Vaccaro
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> From: "Clark Fobes" <claroneman@-----.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:09 PM
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> Subject: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
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>> I was subbing for a rehearsal of Othello with the SF Opera a few days ago
>> and was very interested to see a written low D in the 2nd clarinet part
>> which in that section was for C clarinet. I wonder if Verdi was writing
>> for
>> a specific instrument or if he just did not know that the soprano
>> clarinets
>> did not go that low? Verdi was such a wonderful orchestrator by the time
>> he
>> got to his late Operas that you would think he would be aware of the
>> range
>> of all of the woodwinds.
>>
>> Clark W Fobes
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