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Re: Transpositions/

Author: Sylvain
Date: 2014-12-24 00:21

Greg,

It's likely what AAAclarinet was pointing to.

A. Play it on whatever clarinet you want as long as the sounding pitch is preserved.

B. If you have questions about specific notes not being the same in the Des Moines excerpt vs your edition, contact the Opera company for clarification. By default play exactly the notes they sent you.

C. Singers may transpose a part in a more convenient key/range for their voice. It's not unheard of, but clearly not something an opera company is interested in hearing.
It would be like playing the mozart clarinet concerto on Bb without changing the written pitch just because you don't like playing your A and transposing to preserve the sounding pitch brings it in a tough key.

D. Ignore all I say and call the Des Moines Opera for clarification.

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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>

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