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Author: Retread
Date: 2005-08-14 20:51
Does anyone know where I can get sheet music of the wonderful clarinet opening for Rhapsody in Blue? The only sheets I can find are piano, and obviously that won't do. Guess I can transcribe it but I'm not (by any means)an expert in music, though I'd like to try to play the Rhapsody part.
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2005-08-14 21:23
If you have access a repertoire of high school band music, they might have the piece. The first clarinet part has what you're looking for.
The other option is to order a copy of the score.
Sue Tansey
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-08-15 02:08
The clarinet excerpts for the Rhapsody in Blue (including the opening glissando) are found in the symphonic repertoire book The Orchestral Clarinetist volume III, by Kalman Bloch ...GBK
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-08-15 10:29
I seem to recall that there is a clarinet and piano version in a book I have at home. Can't check this before Friday, will try to remember and post again with details.
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Author: senior
Date: 2005-08-16 19:15
Here it is.
http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/book.asp?ppn=bkwbts0008&bookmark=0
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Author: clarispark
Date: 2005-08-18 04:11
I read a book about the Gershwin brothers once. It had a full-page photo of George's piano draft of the Rhapsody's first page. I looked at the part marked (clarinet) and transposed it up a major second. So...I never really had it in print. I do know that the page through J.W. Pepper is accurate, though; since it is the original orchestration by Ferde Grofe (hired to orchestrate it because there wasn't enough time for Gershwin to).
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-08-18 04:43
clarispark wrote:
> since it is the original orchestration by Ferde Grofe (hired to
> orchestrate it because there wasn't enough time for Gershwin
> to).
One clarification:
Eventhough Grofe orchestrated the work, Gershwin did make some indications as to how he wanted the work scored. But, rather than naming the instrument he wanted in a particular passage, Gershwin named the actual Whiteman musician...GBK
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-08-18 16:29
Grofe was a very flexible man, from all that I've read. Some of his "original" stuff (written for the Whiteman band) existed in a number of versions, each suited to whatever The Big Guy (Whiteman, who was an imposing mountain of a man) was using at the time.
I view Grofe as an underappreciated talent in the music scene. Probably the fate of most American composers, to be sure, but the association with "jazz" and Gershwin doesn't help either. Orchestras that play a lot of Gershwin programs generally do better than those that don't, but that doesn't stop the "classisists" from looking down their noses at George and Ferd.
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Author: Retread
Date: 2005-08-18 17:11
Thank you all for the wonderful responses, I am really overwhelmed. I really didn't know the music world was so interested in helping one another, if I ever have the chance I will surely return the favor.
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