Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2009/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:59:15 -0500

Quite true Nitai. Our job as players is not only to play the literature as
best we can, but to have literature created for our instruments, and if our
instruments have an extended range, composers will write for them..

It is narrow and parochial for any player to restrict an instrument's range
only to music that does not go outside of that range. If everyone had a view
like that, we would not be in a position to buy a basset clarinet today.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nitai Levi" <clarnibass@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part

>> So what would you do with those low notes, apart from give nice
>> vibrations
>> to the flutist sitting in front of you? To my knowledge, the only scores
>> using lower notes (e.g. Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff) only use Bb basses.

Some players are not limited to music already written, and play (sometimes
mostly) improvised music and/or music that is written for them (by
themselves or another composer). So in those cases the music will have the
notes (or any type of sound) that the player can use.

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