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Re: Eb or Bass clarinet?

Author: rmk54
Date: 2017-10-09 21:08

As a music librarian, I've found that there is ALWAYS a score for bass clarinet and there is rarely a score for Eb unless the music is quite old. Rarely in modern music is there a part for Eb clarinet.

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You must be talking about band music. There are many modern orchestral works that use E-flat clarinet.

See:

Mason Bates
John Adams
Reza Vali
Elliott Carter
John Corigliano
John Williams

...for starters.

And what do you mean by quite old? I've also seen a lot of 20th C. band music with E-flat parts.

Maybe you mean E-flat *alto* clarinet, but there is also modern band repertoire that uses that instrument, such as Percy Grainger and the famous alto clarinet cadenza in the Ingolf Dahl Sinfonietta.

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