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New Music for Clarinet: Perspective Sought...

Author: Ski
Date: 2007-08-23 01:39

If you were commissioning a new work for clarinet (with or without accompaniment of some kind), and you had the option to specify that the work be either "traditional" or "contemporary" in style (see definitions below), which would you choose to have written, and why?

By "Traditional" I'm referring to music imbued with harmonic sensibilities that would be 'accessible' to those who enjoy traditional pre 20th-century classical music, or the programmatic music of, say, Copeland, but wouldn't enjoy more contemporary works by the serialists, Corigliano, Crumb, or Carter (just examples, not meaning to exclude them specifically). No extended techniques involved on the part of the clarinetist.

By "Contemporary" I mean a work of more abstract form and overall sound, and would include extended techniques.

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