Author: Wes
Date: 2016-06-30 10:57
There are three ways of playing the Suite No. 1 Prelude on the bass clarinet using the original cello music, such as the inexpensive Dover edition (kind of small print).
1. Add three sharps to the signature and play it as is, changing accidentals as needed. This makes it in four sharps on the bass clarinet.
2. Add four flats to the signature and play it as is, changing accidentals as needed. This makes it in three flats on the bass clarinet.
3. Transpose the bass clef to keep the notes sounding as written in the cello part. The low register part is easy, as you pretend that you are reading treble clef like a saxophone. The first note, a g in the cello part is played as an e in the treble clef, a fingered low a on the bass clarinet, sounding a real g.
The second register notes on the bass clarinet are not as easy and have to be worked out. For example, the third note in the piece, a b3 for the cello would be played as a c#2 on the bass clarinet, not so easy to find when reading.
Good luck!
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