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Author: kimjh9601
Date: 2014-03-08 18:02
I want to play a clarinet music that has a style of Debussy's first rhapsody. Are there any other clarinet repertoire that has a style of Debussy? Dreamlike, dolce repertoire is what I want!
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-03-08 18:46
Try Bela Kovac's Hommage a Debussy. There are several performances of this piece on YouTube.
You can also look in Norman Heim's inexpensive collection, "Recital Pieces for Clarinet from the Period of Impressionism" published by Mel Bay. This collection contains the clarinet and piano parts for three movements of Debussy's Petite Piece written for clarinet by the composer, a transcription of some other works by Debussy, including "Arabesques," and a sampling of Gabriel Faure pieces in a more classicist style but still vaguely impressionistic.
Post Edited (2014-03-08 19:26)
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Author: ruben
Date: 2014-03-08 22:22
I suggest Marc Delmas' "Fantaisie Italienne", composed at around the same period as Debussy's piece; a very attractivie, "dereamy", neglected piece.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2014-03-09 16:30
I have two early 20th century French favorites that might interest you, Paul Jeanjean's Arabesques and Gabriel Pierne's Canzonetta.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2014-03-09 12:30
Dear Kim: There exists another Marc Delmas piece: "Promenade", I seem to remember it is called (clarinet and piano). Delmas is a sadly-neglected composer as are many other "minor" French composers.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-03-09 18:20
The Debussy Première Rhapsodie may sound "dreamlike" and "dolce," but that's only on the surface. It's revolutionary, with newly invented types of harmonic motion. It was written as a contest piece, posing difficult requirements for the best players, even today.
It requires strict rhythm and precise tempo changes. Also, the pianist is your fully equal partner. You can't understand what's happening unless you practice from the score, hearing how the phrases fit together as they are passed back and forth.
For much more, see http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=366485&t=366467.
There's much other Debussy in the same mould - The Girl With Flaxen Hair and Clair de Lune, for example, but, again, you have to be wide awake, not dreaming.
Ken Shaw
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Author: kimjh9601
Date: 2014-03-09 18:45
yeah I have played both of the pieces very fun pieces! thanks for the suggestion
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Author: kimjh9601
Date: 2014-03-09 16:26
I agree with your opinion that Delmas is such a great composer. The piece you suggested is gorgeous but a bit short for my repertoire.
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Author: kimjh9601
Date: 2014-03-09 20:26
I agree with your opinion that Delmas is such a great composer. The piece you suggested is gorgeous but a bit short for my repertoire.
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Author: TAS
Date: 2014-03-10 04:19
Nice selection, the Delmas.
Sadly, lots of great clarinet solo literature from back in the day is in the graveyard of forgotten favorites.
Mine is the Fantaisie from the Opera Der Freischutz arr Kroepsch/Bellison/Langenus, an old Carl Fischer war horse I still use as an encore for recitals.
TAS
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-03-10 16:54
Re. Debussy's "Girl with the Flaxen Hair," originally a piano prelude (1909), I've been using David Hite's 1988 clarinet transcription published by Southern Music. He transcribed it from the perverse key of G-flat major (six flats) into concert F (G for Bb clarinet). However, I think he did something rather strange with the ending, which he's elongated, with the clarinet silent for the last three bars.
In 1910, Arthur Hartmann transcribed the piece for piano and violin, with Debussy's permission. (The two of them played the transcription together in concerts.) He also transcribed it into concert F. The copyright has lapsed on that transcription and it's available free of charge on the IMSLP site,
http://www.imslp.org/
It's fairly easy to transpose the last few bars of that violin transcription to alter Hite's clarinet transcription into something closer to what I think Debussy intended.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2014-03-10 19:44
The "Petite Piece" by L. Quet and the "Fantasy Ballet" by Jules Mazzelier are in the right style buy you may find them too short. A longer work you might take a look at is "Le Tombeau de Ravel" by Arthur Benjamin.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: kimjh9601
Date: 2014-03-13 13:44
Thank you for the reply. Your reply helped a lot! But I couldn't find those sheet music anywhere
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