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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-12-31 16:32
I think in one of these recent posts this idea came up.
Here's my list of well known songs:
Brahms lullaby - I'd be willing to bet someone had probably already played this on clarinet
Don Mclean: 'Miss American Pie' - My favorite song of all time. I could imagine it pretty well on clarinet. Some of the other old classic rock songs could work too, 'Blackbird' also comes into mind
I sure wish Greig's 'Morning' from 'Peer Gynt' had a clarinet playing the soft opening theme...
Leontovitch's 'Carol of the Bells'
Mandy Moore's 'Only Hope'
Slow mvt from Bach's 2nd Brandenberg
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-12-31 16:45
Re: Peer Gynt - Having tried to play the oboe opening to "Morning" etc, well [on oboe], I'd just suggest getting ahold of a orch. score and either sight transposing or writing-off, that beautiful oboe/flute duet, it's tender and exposed!! Re: Carol of Bells, we had a good arr. of it for concert band. Cant help on others. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-12-31 16:47
Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe"*
*just kidding --- it would sound better on contra-alto sarrussophone
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-12-31 19:04
GBK: In what key would one transcribe 4'33" for clarinet? (and if performed on bass clarinet should one play it up an octave?) ---- these questions have been keeping me up nights for many years......DS
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-12-31 20:05
Running Wild (Benny Goodman). There's probably a transcription of it somewhere, but where?
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-12-31 21:00
I have always wanted to transcribe some orchestral works for solo clarinet. If Liszt could do it for piano, the clarinet could do it (though the pieces would surely be quite difficult). This concept actually appeals to me more as the act of compositional prowess than from a playing standpoint.
Another piece I'd like to have transcribed for clarinet is Faure Violin Sonata (No. 1, I believe). I just think this is an awesome piece.
Don Hite
theclarinetist@yahoo.com
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2003-12-31 21:02
"Happy Birthday".
And I want the singing of it by over-12-year-olds to be banned. Adults always start it too high, so the third "Birthday" is always a tritone flat, resulting in what Prof Peter Schickele describes as Unintentional Modulation ("UM").
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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-12-31 21:57
hmm, i think it would be a wonderful idea to transcribe 4'33" for clarinet and make it a centerpiece in the clarinet repertoire. 433 has the potential to be the next 622: a real test of precision, tone, and of course dynamics.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-01-01 04:05
I'd love to turn Arnold's Fantasy into an orchestral piece with solo clarinet - you could do SO much with it!!!
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2004-01-01 04:20
A community band in which I play just did a variant on Carol of the Bells called "African Bell Carol." This arrangement is by Robert W. Smith and features a heavy drum line with 2 solos, the second for 16 bars. The 1st clar had much of the melody. Not too dificult an arrangement as this is an intergenerational band, kids 6th grade and up playing with adults.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-01-01 21:01
4'33"?
It's my cat's favourite piece of clarinet music. And my wife's. And my neighbours'.
I can tell, it's the only piece where they just beg for an encore.
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2004-01-02 05:03
Our bass clarinetist transcribed/arranged "Goofus" for us, and it sounds pretty good. He does a lot of arranging for us using concert band scores and the Finale music publishing program.
You guys crack me up on your 4'33" references! Thanks, GBK for starting it! 
I'd love to see Chaminade's Flute Concertino on clarinet, although those nasty octave jumps in the cadenza would be challenging. Hey, I can't play 'em well enough on flute to be true grace notes. Oh, well. That's my $.02. (Did we know there's no cent sign on the keyboard? I just figured that out!)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-01-02 06:25
Lisa said:
> (Did we know there's no cent sign on the keyboard? I just figured that out!)
For a "¢" - hold down the Alt key and then press the numbers 0162 ...GBK
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2004-01-02 15:36
GBK,
I know there are several codes for other keyboard characters. Somehow alt+0612 gives me a "d", but I used to know the code for the copyright sign.
There's also this handy dandy character: Þ, quite useful in this sense: :-Þ
OK, I'll put my tongue back in my mouth now. (alt+0222)
Getting back to the thread topic, I think it would be cool to do a clarinet choir transcription of only the first movement of PDQ Bach's "Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion."
My reason is that whenever I've played it (at festivals back when I was a kid), no matter what the conductor said/did, everyone would evenually gravitate to playing in unision at the beginning of it. (Instead of some parts coming in on the beat while others came in off the beat.) Drove me crazy, since I "got" what the composer was doing.
Anybody ever play that song the correct way? Does it sound good or bad played correctly?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-01-02 15:49
Lisa said:
> Somehow alt+0612 gives me a "d", but I used to know the code for the copyright sign.
Yes ... Alt + 0612 is a "d", but Alt + 0162 is "¢"
You can also get symbols from the Windows Character Map ...GBK
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2004-01-02 15:56
¢¢¢ OK, I got it now. Thanks.
This teacher's brain is still on vacation. Monday is going to hit me really, really hard. Gee, I can't wait...
Post Edited (2004-01-07 01:54)
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-01-02 19:52
As I've mentioned recently, I was hired to arrange parts of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker for (mostly) 2 violins, clarinet, and accordion. I had to use a couple of other instruments provided by some other musicians, because some of the "Scene" music in the first act we did just was too big for 4!
I've been working on some Kreisler transcriptions for my trio (violin, clarinet, and accordion), and they're really fun.
I guess I'm pretty much of the opinion that if I want to play it, I will finda a way! Finale certainly comes in handy too...
Katrina
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-01-03 03:25
1) Codes should not be used here - they are NOT universal.
2) Use the correct HTML entities instead such as
è = è
I'll see if I can put up a list later.
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Author: deepriver27
Date: 2004-01-03 12:43
I'm playing around with the idea of playing the opening tenor aria from Handel's "Messiah" around Easter on clarinet. Our church has a Clavinova so I won't have to transpose it -
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Author: Meri
Date: 2004-01-06 22:46
Songs I'd like to Transcribe:
The World is Waiting for the Sunshine (the one on James Campbell's CD, Manhattan Echoes)
Mastika (Dance known in several Balkan Countries)
Blackbird/Bye Bye Blackbird (on Stolzman's Dreams CD)
Funeral March from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream.
To ALOMARvelous12: There are at least two arrangments of 'Morning' from Peer Gynt for clarinet and piano, though only one of them is any good, I can't remember the name of anthology it's in, but I remember looking it up for one of my students several months back who made a request for this piece.
Meri
"There is a difference between being flat and sounding in tune, and being in tune but sounding flat. The first I can live with; the second I cannot."
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Author: coasten1
Date: 2004-01-07 17:28
Anyone play out of the Richard Stolzman Aria book for Clarinet and Piano?
There are some nice pieces written for clarinet. I have the cd and would love to try some of those pieces.
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2004-01-07 18:18
>Anyone play out of the Richard Stolzman Aria book for Clarinet and Piano?<
I think I've played or tried to play most of them. It was worth the money for me because I love several of the songs.
RW
Best
Rick
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-01-07 20:28
Song equal something sung ... Piece equals something played. I'm assuming you're asking about pieces, right, if not ... songs for the clarinet: how about the Vegemite Song?
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Author: lyn
Date: 2004-01-12 02:04
OH, I know this thread is old, but someone said Zappa and my ears perked up!!!
I'd like to arrange parts of the Bernstein Mass for my clarinet choir....
~L
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Author: Garret
Date: 2004-01-12 03:41
I'd like to transcribe the Franck Violin Sonata in A. It's my favorite violin sonata, but I'm not sure if clarinet could give the piece the proper impact and intensity. I'd also like to transcribe some Fritz Kreisler pieces.
I've also played out of the Stoltzman Aria book. Played "Je Veux Vivre" and "O Mio Babbino Caro" for recitals. Loads of fun!
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-01-12 04:21
I just heard a nice jazz song on a movie. "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin. I bet Acker Bilk or Pete Fountain could really doll this one up. Although to me it seems like a song that Acker Bilk would probably have a little more success with commercially.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2004-01-27 17:22
Regarding Cage's "4:33." the original piano selection was written (as I recall) in C, or perhaps A natural minor, depending on the "ear" of the listener. However, I have considered preparing a transcription for unaccompanied Clarinet in Concert d tonic Dorian, one of my favorite keys. Transposed for Clarinet, this would fall into e tonic Dorian, so the Clarinet chart would bear two sharps. During any tacet passage that might arise, the instrumentalist then could grasp the Clarinet gently between T and L1, representing the "home" fingering. Thus would the right hand be freed for loose expression of tempo or for other purposes, such as appropriate gestures toward any audience members who might be experiencing an insufficiently stimulating presentation. I do believe this would retain -- even amplify -- Cage's original intent, yet offer a brightly fresh method of its expression.
This is a complex subject which would no doubt be discussed more appropriately in a separate thread, which I will not start.
Regards,
John
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-01-27 17:55
John McA -
You obviously intend to perform 4'33" on the Bb. Really that's a wasted opportunity.
4'33" is unheard to best advantage on everyone's favourite clarinet, the alto.
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To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-01-27 18:21
I recently heard Mozart's K622 on guitar. I'd give a week's pay to find a clarinet version of that.u
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2004-01-27 18:40
I was so concerned my comments might ignite a firestorm of controversy.
Yes, perhaps it would be a more majestic piece if performed with the alto Clarinet (or even the Octobass). However, I own no such instrument, and my intent would be to prepare this for my own performance. At one time, I considered using the Baroque tenor recorder but discarded this possibility out of hand because of the obvious simplicity involved. After all, this should be a piece of virtuoso character, nicht wahr?
I do intend the use of my Richard Keilwerth 24/6 German-system Clarinet for the transcription's premiere. Obviously, its Teutonic darkness will complement so well Cage's evident desire of presentational elegance.
MOO, YMMV, LS/MFT, 23 Skidoo, hope this helps.
Regards,
John
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-01-27 19:08
JMcAulay wrote:
> However, I have
> considered preparing a transcription for unaccompanied Clarinet
> in Concert d tonic Dorian, one of my favorite keys.
I hope you've got permission from the copyright holder. They've already gone after someone who copied the theme ...
Really.
' ... His estate won a bizarre copyright battle in 2002, when composer Mike Batt agreed to pay a six-figure sum to a charity because his album featured a tongue-in-cheek silent track which he credited as co-written by Cage. ..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3401901.stm
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Author: joevacc
Date: 2004-01-27 19:44
Bob Schwab wrote: Bach's Air on the G String
There several good transcripitions for that peice. I'm sorry I am not home right now to look at my copy but I am sure I found it on "Sheet Music.com"
Personally I have just been wanting to work up "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione. One of my favorites from the '70's!
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Author: Jimmy
Date: 2004-01-27 20:11
I have alwayse wanted to play the Motzart clarinet concherto on Sopranino clarinet, with orcestra preferably but a piano reduction would work to I guess. I guess what I am saying is that I would like an existing clarinet piece transposed to put the orcestra in Eb major.
Then again, playing it on the octocontrabass clarinet would be pretty cool to, and it is in Bb.
Jimmy
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Author: Ted
Date: 2004-01-27 21:06
I once made a ranscription of Ravels "Pavan for a dead Princess" for WW quintet that (I think ) would be great for clarinet choir.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2004-01-27 22:00
Mark Charette cautioned: "I hope you've got permission from the copyright holder. They've already gone after someone who copied the theme ..."
Ah, Mark... thank you. Again you've saved me from civil claims. Needless to say, it's that "six-figure" thing that dissuades me. Perhaps I should instead choose to use as my model the less familiar (but equally moving) Casimir Kell composition, "Ann Boleyn -- After the Ax," to which (as Kell's sole heir) I have the rights. Kell's piece should, of course, not be confused with Honneger's "Joan of Arc at the Stake," which is somewhat more complex.
TYVM.
Regards,
John
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