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Author: Jerry Janusz
Date: 2000-02-09 22:16
I would like to find transciptions of some (any) of the
Benny Goodman quartet pieces (Avalon, Flying Home, Air Mail special, etc).
Does anyone know if these are available, especialy the clarinet and vibes parts.
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Author: Todd
Date: 2000-02-09 22:36
Hey!Check out "Sheetmusicplus" through their search box on the bottom of all Sneezy pages. The second listing might be what you are looking for.
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Author: Tom Quick
Date: 2000-02-10 00:22
Hal Leonard's "Benny Goodman Composer/Artist" contains lots of the Sextet music as clarinet/piano arrangements. The clarinet parts are as-played in most cases - in AC/DC and Clarinet a la King this means the pieces are near their original full length. In pieces which had extended vibe, sax, trumpet or electric guitar solos either the clarinet is given the part (usually the melody) or the solos are cut out. 3 minute pieces are reduced to 1 minute (Shivers and Breakfast Feud), though all of Benny's licks are there. I guess you'll have to find a similar Lionel Hampton collection to merge with this one....
Despite the condensations, these pieces are satisfying in a way different from the more refined Copland Concerto. After all, they paid for it.
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Author: lande@ erols.com
Date: 2000-02-12 02:12
Do these transcriptions include all the grace notes and embellishments?
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Author: Tom Quick
Date: 2000-02-13 14:44
If you look at the transcriptions they are note for note with what you hear in many of the recordings (though there have been so may versions of Flying Home and Air Mail Special that it's hard to find exact correspondance on these). For embellishment you have to play to match what you hear - that's why I suggest buying a Charley Christian collection, which contains most of these pieces. Written eighth notes are not played straight - always as a kind of tripletized swing figure. Some of the vibrato and slides are indicated, but not all. The recordings tell you which are slides and which are glisses, and which are trills and which are vibrato (same symbols are used for both). Obscure musical terms are used (lip growl???). Many of the slurred passages are articulated - a kind of soft legato tongueing. And then there's the matter of tempo: metronone marks vary from 80-84 on Clarinet a la King to 120 on Gilly and Slipped Disc. The marks in the book (boogie woogie, moderate swing, etc) are not indicative of anything. Without meaningful marks, it's a pretty safe assumption that these pieces are to be played as fast as possible. Look at Hirsch's cartoon of Benny Goodman and try to count the fingers.
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