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Author: greenleaf
Date: 2009-02-14 14:26
I'm shortly due to spend a morning playing Brahms Symphony number 4, and wondering if there is anywhere that I can get a transposed 2nd clarinet part for the third movement? (The original is written for clarinet in C)
Thanks
greenleaf
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-02-14 14:46
I believe that Kalmus prints transposed parts now but you really should be able to transpose, there are many other orchestra parts in C. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2009-02-14 15:08
Read a whole step up and add two sharps to the key signature...that puts it in D major, not so bad.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2009-02-14 15:55
Your best off transposing it for A clarinet as the rest of the symphony is for A.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: kdk
Date: 2009-02-14 16:45
The other problem with actually playing it on a C clarinet are the low E-flats. They are consequential notes played only by clarinets (a2) and bassoons.
Karl
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2009-02-14 18:28
Karl,
Your dead right. Did Brahms intend to use C clarinets or are the low Eb misprints? In one edition I've used, I forget which, the Ebs are not in the part in the Breitkopf (sp) they are (used that one recently).
Peter Cigleris
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Author: DougR
Date: 2009-02-15 01:54
Frankly, I think that if the time and energy one would spend on locating a transposed part, getting it shipped, etc. etc., were spent instead on learning the transposition, you'd have not only a new skill for your immediate purpose, but a foundational skill you'd use over and over again in the future. Sometimes taking a shortcut for the sake of convenience turns out to be neither a shortcut nor a convenience.
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