Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 2011/03

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] To Baroque o philes
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:57:07 -0400

Kathy,
It is worth looking at the reissues of Hotteterre's " The oboe" too; also Michael Corette's violin tutor, as the ornamentation for French Baroque music is not the same as for German.
The book on the subject I still like most is the one by Thurston Dart. Experts will tell you it is outdated, but there is more common sense in his comments than anywhere I know.
If you can get the players (2 flutes/treble recorders+ oboe with continuo) I think you would enjoy the Schickhardt sonatas, pub. Musica Rara. In spite of the publication saying that the above are the required solo instruments I suspect that this instrumentation is only valid for No.1, No. 2 works beautifully with 2 violins and flute and I have played them all with various solo instruments. Try them and see! No.1 is fine with C clarinet, and there are Recorder players around who love the chance to play in an ensemble with "proper instruments" ( I quote a recorder player with whom I played much baroque chamber music; I have never considered the recorder as anything but a proper instrument).
Martin

On 13 Mar 2011, at 09:53, Keith Bowen wrote:

JJ Quantz book 'On Playing the Flute' is a good contemporary reference to
Baroque musical style and ornamentation, and is by no means confined to the
flute.

Kathy wrote:

I have noted a lot of ornamentation in the recordings I am listening to which I am yet to grasp, though a reference source would be most welcome?
In this case I am welcoming constructive criticism. I am aware MMO is hardly
a reliable source, this is me just having fun with MMO in my practice room,
but if there are ways for me to play the music more in the style it was
intended without having to learn the flute, recorder or oboe. I am not
saying these pieces would have been written for clarinet if it had been
around. I am not saying that at all. In fact I think not. But my getting a C
clarinet has opened up a path to play this beguiling music which most
clarinettists would miss out on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ--HwfzceE

Tuning problems with the C, but you can see through the video I am working
with a tuner to sort it out. To be honest, it is not so much tuning problems
as timbre issues. Certain notes sound stuffy and out of tune but are
perfectly in tune and the instrument is certainly responding better with my
new Backun fatboy on it. Thank you Morrie J

Regards,

Kathy Williams-DeVries

BMusPerf (Hons)

Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)

ATCL, LTCL

0404946839

www.kathywilliams76.com

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