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Author: bill28099
Date: 2008-01-07 20:49
We just sight read through this symphony yesterday and then I come home and started googling for a score or midi file. I found a midi of the first movement and the clarinet part is written in both treble and bass clef. The bass clef part goes down to low C. The music I received is definitely a transcription combining the two parts and dropping the low notes.
Was this piece of music orginally written to be played on a basset clarinet in A?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-07 23:34
The last time I played it, I seem to remember using A clarinet in the first and last movements, and Bb clarinet in the 2nd and 3rd movements...GBK
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2008-01-08 01:55
Yes, that is exactly the way my part is written. However, the downloaded midi sequence has movement 1 scored for 4 clarinets, two of which are playing in the bass clef and having notes down to low C.
http://www.classicalmidi.co.uk/borodin.htm
Could anyone with a copy of the orginal score shed some light on this strange midi sequencing.
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Author: davyd
Date: 2008-01-09 13:16
The piece is indeed written for conventional clarinets in A and Bb; I know this from having played it.
I pulled the MIDI file into Finale and compared it with the score I have. Some observations:
1. Everything's in concert pitch
2. Some of the staves aren't labeled.
3. What's on the screen often doesn't match what's on the page, in terms of which instrument is playing what.
Particularly because of point 3, I don't know that I'd want to use this rendition as a study guide. You're much better off hunting down a genuine score. If you don't want to buy one, maybe the conductor will make you a copy, or maybe the local university library will have it.
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Author: James Langdell
Date: 2008-01-09 15:51
There's an inexpensive not-miniature score reprint available from Dover Publications:
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486441202.html
--James
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2008-01-09 18:22
Thanks for everyone's comments. Yes it seems to be very common in midi sequencing to leave everything in concert pitch, Sibelius makes fast work of that problem.
I'll just put this down as a poor sequencing and forget it until I can stick my nose in the score next weekend.
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