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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2004-10-08 17:05
you know, for Halloween ![[whoa]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie10.gif) ? are there pieces in which the clarinet sounds spooky, scary and generally frightening?
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2004-10-08 17:25
Answer 1: Just about anything I play.
Answer 2: The beginning of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto.
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Author: Tom J.
Date: 2004-10-08 17:37
How about :
Stravinsky : Three Pieces
Messaien : Abime des Oiseaux (from QFTEOT)
Martino : A Set for Clarinet
Berg : Four Pieces
Bartok : Miraculous Mandarin cadenzas
and a piece I'm writing, working title is "3 Cats in Search of a Meal" which uses lots of glissandi and has the pianist snapping a metal ruler against the strings simulating the sound of a banging garbage can lid. Cool.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-10-08 17:48
"A Night on Bald Mountain" of course, "alls well which ends" Shak'sp'!!. For concert band, a new one by Ed Huckaby, [something like} "Merry Christmas with Chips and Salsa" and another we ?played? last nite, when I can recall its name !! will post. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: pewd
Date: 2004-10-08 18:18
funeral march of a marionette played on a contra
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-10-08 18:59
The Changeling by JOhn Corigliano has some really whacky clarinet stuff!
David Dow
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-10-08 22:14
Pick any piece, have all your 4th graders play it in unison...GBK
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-10-08 23:00
Play any standard piece of literature at a ridiculously slow rubato, semi-staccato... like a broken music box.
The first movement of John Adams' "Gnarly Buttons" (especially the first page, in my copy) can be played very spookily.
<shameless self-promotion>
Alternatively, the second movement of a piece I wrote last fall can be quite eerie. (it's about an old house that's a bit creepy)... if you'd like a copy, drop me an email.
</shameless self-promotion>
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: idahofats
Date: 2004-10-09 16:35
I don't know whether there's a sheet music source, but the soundtrack to "Bride of Frankenstein" (music by Franz Waxman) has some twelve-tone minor key licks for clarinet that always seemed spooky to me.
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2004-10-09 17:02
Thanks for all the ideas - I don't know if I can do a "ridiculously slow rubato, semi-staccato," but I'll try. Funny idaho that you mention "Bride of Frankenstein" - I've got it on DVD and was going to watch it tonight - I'll listen for the clarinet.
Does the march of the Capulets (or is it the Montagues?) have a really low clarinet part (for bass?) that sounds scary? I think that what stuck in my mind some time ago.
Have you all worked out your costumes yet?
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-10-10 14:18
Wasn't the Bass clarinet developed just for that purpose....lol
Bob Draznik
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-10-10 15:23
The hobgoblin opening sequence of the old CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a premier example of this for the bass clarinet. Totentanz is another that's easy enough to reproduce, particularly at the low end of an extended range horn.
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