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Author: Alphie
Date: 2004-12-27 20:51
Tomorrow I start rehersals for a New Year's concert with music by Johan Strauss and family. One piece by Joh. Strauss, "Geheimnisse aus der Wiener Tanzwelt" asks for clarinet in "E", one semitone higher than the Eb clarinet. This is the first time I see original music for such an odd clarinet in print. Earlier I have played a B natural clarinet but from music rewritten for A clarinet.
Has anybody else ever seen original parts written for "odd-key" clarinets?
I own a German simple-system High Pitch Eb-clarinet that actually plays close to E. Maybe I shuld give it a go.
Alphie
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-12-27 21:19
Alphie,
Are you sure it's not just marked as Es on the part? This is quite common, and means e-flat.
I'm happy to be proved wrong, I just think it unlikely that a member of the Strauss family would right for clarinet in E.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2004-12-27 21:54
The key of the piece is b-major. The E clarinet part has one #. 2nd clarinet in A has 2 #s. Both parts make concert b-major so it appears to be correct.
I'm using a D-clarinet, transposing one step up.
Alphie
Post Edited (2004-12-27 21:55)
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-12-28 00:54
kia ora
i too own a german/simple system E flat clarinet that is at high pitch so plays in E at modern pitch..... while it's a cute little thing i can think of only one useful situation in which to perform on it- if you are working with a guitar player who love the key of E (as many do, esp for blues etc) it's nice to be able to jam in C rather than F# (or, on the A clarinet, in G).
not really "on topic" sorry
donald
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