Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2011/06

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] WA Mozart K. Anh 229 Bassett Horn Trios
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:40:37 -0400

I am slightly bedfuddled..

The basset horn is a transposing instrument in F a written C would sound F.

The scores I have stumbled over for the first Div are all in C but indicate
Oboe or Bflat clarinet. The one recording I have is the basset horn score
played on Bflat instruments. So these are not as originally intended but I
notice that if they are transposed to a written D Major for Bflat clarinets
then the third (bassoon) line is more suited to a Bflat bass (to low Eflat)
as I cannot get to a low C..

Is this a total heresy or does it make sense. After all the version in
written C played on Bflat instruments is not original either.

regards
Peter Gentry

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