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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-06-09 00:07
Ok, so I'm slow....
I decided that I was gonna get some parts so I could play the solos. I got Pete and the Wolf.... And it goes down to D#? So I assume that it is popular for orchestral clarinets to just so happen to have a full boehm clarinet? hehe.
--CG
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-06-09 00:10
Does it?
It's for clarinet in A...maybe you have a tranposed version?
Can't say I've ever noticed....
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-06-09 00:12
ah, you know... I bet you it is a transcribed version! It is in Bb on the part. That's strange...
--CG
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-06-09 11:56
Perhaps you are reading a conductor score or something like that? Often, the conductor score will have all the instrument lines written in concert pitch.
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-06-09 13:05
The first edition of Guy Dangain's extract books has the whole of the 'climbing the tree' section as well as all the transpositions of the cat's main theme.
If you're desperate to learn it, and want it in the right key, then I suggest that.
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Author: javier garcia m
Date: 2004-06-09 13:19
My pocket score version is written for C clarinet but obviously it must be played with an A clarinet.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-06-09 13:44
Peter and the Wolf is performed entirely on A clarinet.
Some players do prefer to switch to Bb clarinet (or C clarinet) between numbers 27 and 37 ...GBK
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Author: saxlite
Date: 2004-06-09 13:47
I must be slow, too.......I thought D# was very similar to Eb. Most BC's can do Eb.........
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-06-09 14:43
On a televised childrens' concert with Leonard Bernstein and the NY Phil., I remember seeing Robert McGinnis get gobbled up by the tree-climbing solo. It's a truly nasty set of licks, no matter which instrument you play it on.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Brad
Date: 2004-06-09 20:22
Peter Hadcock has some great suggestions on how to more easily climb up the tree in his book "The Working Clarinetist".
Brad Cohen
Clarinetist
la_brad@yahoo.com
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-06-10 00:07
The one time that I "had" to play this, it was from an arrangement that had the part in BOTH A and Bb. While I had a A horn, I opted to play it on the Bb (full Boehm with the obligatory Eb key for the low note) as it was one less horn to haul to the concert.
When I do it for school groups as part of an overall instrument demo, I play it on the A...tradition and all...
And, the Eb key on bass clarinets has been placed there for the same reason. There have been many (well, some) bass clarinet parts in A written over the years, but few (and for many years, no) A bass clarinets built to play them. All of the old Bb "Albert" basses that I have used over the years were sans low Eb key...all being horns built back in the day when there were still A horns made.
Don't think that I'd want to hear is played on bass though...in whatever pitch.
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2004-06-10 17:59
Prokofiev wrote his scores with all the instruments in concert pitch. He had assistants who transposed the parts once the score was finished. Since he usually included low concert D-flats it is necessary to use an A clarinet or a full-boehm Bb clarinet.
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Author: Eileen
Date: 2004-06-14 21:15
I played this recently. I don't have an A clarinet. But our community orchestra does have a bass clarinet player. So the bass clarinet played each phrase which went down to the Eb and I picked it back up on the Bb in the next phrase. It worked. Many people in the orchestra commented that they could not tell who was playing which part without looking at us because the sound blended so well together.
We played a children's concert and we decided to ham it up by dressing as the characters in Peter and the Wolf. I wore cat ears and a tail and drew whiskers on my face; the bassoon player wore a grandfather beard; the flute wore feathers in her hair; the oboe wore yellow ... Quite a change from the concert black! The kids liked the silly costumes. I think it communicated to them the idea that an orchestra concert could be a fun thing too.
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