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Author: 2cekce ★2017
Date: 2012-12-16 20:14
Hi everyone, I listen to a classical music station here in Atlanta and heard the violin concerto in E major and has driven me to find if the piece was written for clarinet so i can practice or play it. I'm basically your above average player with a desire to play challenging music as it tends to keep me in shape musically and technically. Anyway I did a thread search and that thread from a good while back had no results as to where I can find the piece if it exist. Anyone have any new info on where I can find it? Thanks. Oh the composer was Bach
Post Edited (2012-12-16 21:05)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-12-16 20:45
Who was the composer? Bach? Someone else?
Karl
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-12-16 23:33
The Bach E Major is probably the best known, but Vivaldi apparently composed 3 of them and Tartini composed 1 in addition to several others that would be less likely to have been programmed on a music station - not to mention dozens of others by these composers in other keys.
One very cheap (as in free downloadable PDF files) source for music that's in the public domain (including the ones I've mentioned) is the Petrucci Music Library at http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page. You can find a number of E Major violin concerti at http://tinyurl.com/bt7rxl4. Or hundreds of other concerti of many composers for many instruments (mostly 19th century and earlier) by browsing from the IMSLP home page and choosing Concertos from the Instrumentation/Genres menu choice. You could download an absolutely unlimited amount of music to play.
As bill28099 said, there's no need to worry about transposing any of these pieces to play them on clarinet so long as you don't intend to perform them or play them with an accompanist. Among the staples in my own practice regimen are the (unaccompanied) Bach cello suites and the Violin suites and partitas. Some of the specific string techniques (mostly double stops) don't translate well to clarinet, but overall they're great music for any instrument. The Baroque string literature (like the Bach and Vivaldi pieces) are often very playable on clarinet without having to leave much out.
Karl
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2012-12-17 18:47
If you want to play much violin music get yourself a C clarinet, that way transposition and performing with piano or other instruments etc will not be a problem.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-12-17 18:53
What key was the Shostakovich Violin Concerto in (I doubt it was anything major)? I'd like to hear THAT done on the clarinet........
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2012-12-19 00:35
The Kabalevsky Violin Concerto actually sits pretty well on the clarinet. If you can tongue. Fast.
But really, it's a lot of fun. The double-stops in the cadenza are kind of a challenge - I've been thinking about arranging the piece for clarinet and concert band.
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