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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-11-23 22:04
For those not aware, with very little fanfare, Volume IX of The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library has now been released.
Major works from Bloch, Schoenberg, Sibelius, J. Strauss, R. Strauss and Webern.
Although I haven't checked every work included on the disc (there are 50), I did see a D part and transposed Eb part to Till Eulenspiegel.
Like all the other volumes in this series, it is an excellent way to acquire complete clarinet orchestral parts to major works at a very reasonable price....GBK
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Author: davyd
Date: 2007-11-24 00:22
I've not been collecting these, though they do sound like a good investment. A few questions about this series:
1. Do they include all clarinet parts (2nd, 3rd, bass, Eb, etc.) or just 1st?
2. Do they include transposed parts if the original is for anything other than soprano in Bb, A or Eb, or bass in Bb?
3. To what extent do the parts tend to be compatible with published editions, in terms of measure numbering and rehearsal letters/numbers?
4. What are the copyright ramifications?
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-11-24 01:27
1 - yes, all parts for Clarinet when used.
2 - not always, sometimes it's just C when C is used.
3 - don't have mine currently in front of me
4 - don't worry about it, don't ask, don't tell......
(kidding, what is done with that series is legal - they are quite good and very legit).
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-11-24 02:42
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3. To what extent do the parts tend to be compatible with published editions, in terms of measure numbering and rehearsal letters/numbers?
Most of the parts I have printed out look very much like Kalmus edition. I can't recall the exact work, but a cellist friend also confirmed that something she printed from the CD Rom was eerily like Kalmus.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-11-24 03:29
3 - These are published by Hal Leonard. I have yet to find a part that was not compatible with a work I was performing. They are essentially pdf versions of actual published parts. There are, however, some works for which more than one publisher has a version so you may find the version on the CD differs from the one your orchestra may be using, e.g., having rehearsal letters instead of numbers. In my experience, the measure numbers generally coincide, however. I have noticed in particular that, in many cases, they are identical (same font and layout) to rental parts I have seen from Kalmus and Luck's.
4 - As a major publisher with a lot of experience, I expect Hal Leonard is being very careful not to step outside the boundaries of copyright law. It appears to me that the primary criteria for inclusion are: (1) important works, that are (2) in the public domain (in the U.S.) and (3) which have printings either from the Hal Leonard catalog or which can be licensed inexpensively from other publishers. As a result, you are not likely to find much, if anything, composed after 1923. (So, for example, among the works of Strauss, you won't find Metamorphosen, which was composed in 1945. ![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif) ) Other than to create pdf versions of existing parts, I don't think Hal Leonard is preparing any parts specifically for the CD's. Gaps in the list of important public domain works by composers on their discs may indicate that it was too expensive to license the printings. (This might explain why Webern's Passacaglia is on the list but not his 6 Pieces or Im Sommerwind, e.g. -- though I guess it's also possible that, despite the fact that these works were written before 1923, they may not have been first published until after that date.)
Best regards,
jnk
Post Edited (2007-11-24 15:31)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-11-24 13:56
Jack -
Strauss's Metamorphosen is for 23 solo strings. There's no clarinet part. A fine piece, but it wouldn't be on the CD even if it were out of copyright.
It might work well for clarinet choir, though.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-11-24 15:32
Hi Ken,
Good point. But it isn't included on the string CD's in the set either and I think that the reason is probably its date of composition. For the clarinet disk, a better example that I should have used would have been Respighi's "Fountains of Rome," (composed around 1916 if memory serves) which is on disk 8 and his "Pines of Rome," (composed in 1924) which is not . Or the Vaughan-Williams symphonies numbered 4 and above (omitted from Disk 8, which has his first 3 symphonies) or Sibelius Symphonies 6 and 7 (omitted from disk 9, which has Symphonies 1-5).
Best regards,
jnk
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