Klarinet Archive - Posting 000650.txt from 2010/09

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partita ContraBass in BFlat
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:17:46 -0400

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk> w=
rote:
> The prefices basically follow the latin sequence, but at first can't seem=
to decide whether they are cardinal or ordinal and whether to be abrreviat=
ed or not. The ending is always -et, but the first few are (as always) odd=
ities:>>

Regarding the thoughts above:
I would think they would be cardinal. We are not indicating order of
anything. It is indicating how many there are, just as we use regular
cardinal numbers (this is *one* [cardinal] message I am sending out.
This is not the *first* [ordinal] message I am sending out within the
last hour.) To play Brahms clarinet trio, you don't have to have a
duo and a solo in the wings of the stage (not even implied). All you
have to have is the cello, piano and clarinet.

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Regarding the conversation below:
But sextet is well established. I hear that all the time. But I
don't hear dectet or decet.

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:23 AM, <bdaniluk@-----.net> wrote:
> no more than 6et would be sexet...
>
> Sep 25, 2010 09:12:30 AM, klarinet@-----.com wrote:
> Suppose 10et would be decet, rather than dectet?
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Roger Hewitt =A0wrote:
>> Surely it would be undecet and dodecet (not extra t) where the c is hard=
rather than soft despite the following e. =A0After all it is nonet not non=
tet.
>> Roger H
>>
>> --- On Sat, 25/9/10, Jennifer Jones =A0wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jennifer Jones
>>> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partita ContraBass in BFlat
>>> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List"
>>> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 11:49
>>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM,
>>> Keith Bowen
>>> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> > We are also doing an arrangement of the Masonic
>>> Funeral Music, for wind 11et
>>>
>>> I was wondering what to call an 11et:
>>>
>>> The best I've come up with is undectet.
>>>
>>> 12et would be dodectet.
>>>
>>> http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html
>>>
>>> I don't hear those words much.
>>>
>>> 11et and 12et sound just about as good.
>>>
>>> -Jennifer
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