Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2010/06

From: Jordan Selburn <jselburn@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:18:41 -0400

Regardless of cost sometimes it's just not feasible to have the right instr=
ument. I went to an orchestra rehearsal last week, ecstatic at the rare cha=
nce to play bass clarinet for an entire symphony (Vianna da Motta's A' Patr=
ia). When I=A0started to glance through the part during warm ups, however, =
the ominous words "Em La" jumped out and shook me like a 7.5 earthquake. It=
's not just a few passages, either -the entire work=A0is written for bass c=
larinet in A; oddly, the soprano clarinets are in Bb for two of the movemen=
ts.

This is a transposition that I have simply never needed to practice and so =
I'm now faced with either=A0trying to come up to speed very quickly or plug=
ging 12 pages of notes=A0into the computer. I've already started on the lat=
ter (being a wimp, I guess)=A0which has the=A0side benefit of cleaning up a=
part that=A0is written in mediocre manuscript with the extra "bonus" of no=
t including the key signature at the start of each line.

Cheers,
Jordan

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From: Robert Howe <arehow@-----.net>
To: The Klarinet Mailing List <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 5:57:46 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key

Why not just own a set of clarinets and play what is requested unless=A0 =

there is some over arching=A0 technical problem?=A0 A set of clarinets in=
=A0 =

A, Bb and C is no more expensive than an oboe and English horn.=A0 And=A0 =

we oboists use the oboe d'amore for Bach.

Cheers

RH
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