Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 2010/10
From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] H?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:11:32 -0400
Sean
I wouldn't really call a 5-key clarinet fully chromatic, would you? In fact
even where it could play the notes in sharp keys, the manuals of the period
make clear that these notes were intended for trills, not for scalar
passages. They show separate fingering charts for scales and trills, and the
former are much more restricted.
Keith
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From: Sean Osborn [mailto:feanor33@-----.net]
Sent: 30 October 2010 16:59
To: klarinet@-----.com
Subject: Re: [kl] H?
Dan,
Thanks for the clarification. Very strange! It seems so unnecessary
for Mozart (or anyone who had a fully chromatic clarinet) to ask for
such an unusual instrument.
Sean
>The reason why you never see the request for clarinet in B-natural
>(or clarinet in H) in the performance parts of either Idomeneo or
>Cosi is because it has been edited out of the published editions,
>probably because no one believes that they can ask a clarinetist to
>find one of those. But I have the Neue Mozart Ausgabe volumes of
>both operas as well facsimiles of the autographs of both operas, and
>there, in black in white in Mozart's hand is the request for the
>clarinet in B-natural. I remember when I was contacted by the editor
>of the Cosi volume who could not figure out what a clarinet in H
>was. Frankly, I was puzzled too.
>
>It's a rarity to be sure, but it is absolute. And to make the
>matter worse, the editors invariably create the part for an A
>clarinet which is very much the wrong character of sound. A
>B-natural clarinet is almost as lively as a C clarinet, and the A
>clarinet substitution called for by the editors presents a sound
>character too somber.
>
>I'll scan and post the material right from the NMA volume if you
>want further corroboration.
>
>Dan Leeson
www.osbornmusic.com
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