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Re: Bass Clarinet Pedagogy

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-12-24 23:10

EbClarinet wrote:

> So I'm wanting 2 hear your thoughts and feelings about
> directors putting weak clarinet players on bass clarinet.

On the one side, I think most band directors are loathe to take a strong clarinet player off the 1st clarinet part. On the other hand many school band arrangers write dumbed-down parts that enable assigning weak players to them.

The ideal is for one of the stronger clarinet players in a band to ask to play bass at least part of the time. If there's a string program with a good orchestra (that plays original versions of the literature) in the school, a strong player needs to be assigned to bass clarinet, because the "classical" orchestral composers of the 19th century to the present didn't write Bass-Clarinet-For-Dummies parts.

Karl

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