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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2015-09-17 13:14
Sorry if this question seems a bit dumb - may be it's something I should know but the conductor and the other clarinettists in the orchestra I play in were stumped so I thought I'd ask here!
We are rehearsing music from Verdi's Othello (which I'm sure some of the members here will have played) and there are parts for two clarinets and clarone - What would Verdi have meant by this instrument? Is it still extant?
In practice the clarone part mostly happens when one of the clarinets is not playing and doubles one of the clarinet parts so we can cover it but I'm just curious!
Thanks for any input!
Vanessa.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-09-17 18:14
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Bass Clarinet - definitely
Basset horn???"
Sorry about that, brain fade. Basset clarinet.
Tony F.
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2015-09-17 18:52
Aha! Thanks everyone. Is the term used interchangeably in Italian with "clarinetto basso"?
So Tony, do you mean that it could be either a bass clarinet or a basset clarinet?
Vanessa.
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Author: tommo84
Date: 2015-09-17 19:09
In Italy back in the old days we used to call the clarinet (clarinetto) "clarino" and the bass clarinet (clarinetto basso) "clarone".
Basset horn (corno di bassetto) et basset clarinet (clarinetto di bassetto) are NOT correct,also for the different key (F and A)...
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2015-09-17 19:33
That was what I was wondering - how the name might be the same since I knew that the keys were different. Thanks tommo84.
Vanessa.
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