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Author: musica
Date: 2003-12-08 15:48
Does anyone know where I can locate excerpts
to study the clarinet part? Thanks!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-12-08 17:36
Giampieri - Difficult Passages and Solo Passages from Operatic & Symphonic Works, vol. 1, pages 168-172 ...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-08 22:41
Depends entirely on weather you mean Elgar's Symphonic Study Falstaff or Verdi's last masterpiece Falstaff. One's an oper, 't other's not.
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Author: donald
Date: 2003-12-09 10:22
good point diz
also, ones a masterpiece and one's not (we agree on the "masterpiece" part of the picture i'm sure).
donald...
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-10 20:37
donald - yes, not one of Sir Edward's better works. But the opera - is just sublime, beautiful orchestration (thank god because the orchestration in his earlier operas is rather banal, IMHO), clever tunes and extraordinary harmonies. I especially love the forest scene where the faeries and elves have their pinching chorus (pizzica, pizzica) marvelous stuff.
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Author: musica
Date: 2003-12-11 23:08
Thanks for the info. It's the opera parts I'm looking for . I just wanted to
get my hands on the part before our first rehearsal since the conductor is
renting the parts from England and they have not arrived, I'll check out the
excerpt book in the meantime. Haven't played it before and I'm looking forward to
it.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-12 01:10
musica - there is a full score available - published by Dover - which I own, you'll need to put your transposing hat on from memory as some of it is written in C - can't remember however.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-12-12 04:12
diz wrote:
> you'll need to put your transposing hat on from
> memory as some of it is written in C - can't remember however.
Quite a bit of it is written in C, as well as in A and Bb...GBK
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Author: donald
Date: 2003-12-13 21:40
the 2nd clarinet player will need to play bass clarinet for about 1 page of music (in two separate spots), and will need to transpose (in adition to various bits of C clarinet) as the Bass clarinet is written for the lovely "Bass Clarinet in A". there is one little solo spot that is not really that tricky, but will need a bit of work to get it sounding nice if you're not an experienced Bass clarinet player (even though it's a very small part)
if i remember correctly the 2nd clarinet player has to leave out some music while they do this- Verdi originally must have had a Bass Clarinet player in the pit for about 2 or 3 minutes of music?????
donald...
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-14 20:09
donald - this post prompted me to dust of my "period instruments !" performance of this opera ... I'd quite forgotten just how colourful the orchestration is - you gotta love that bass (valveless) horn in A-flat - reminds me of a walrus calling (opens Act 2 Scene 2 - I think).
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Author: musica
Date: 2003-12-20 19:10
Must be Book 2. Just got book 1 and it's not in there but I'll go ahead and order the 2nd volume.
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