Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-07-16 14:23
You really do need to become fluent in reading bass clef to play orchestral bass clarinet --- many parts are written that way. As for T & V, as I recall, there are only two notes (!) of bass clarinet that are prominent, so you might as well learn to read it off the page. Now granted, some parts are ridiculous and very hard to read directly -- in particular I recall Ravel's La Valse, which I seem to remember had lots of notes and was written in bass clef for bass clarinet in "A" --- in that piece I bit the bullet and transposed the entire part back to treble clef for Bb instrument. It was a LOT of work.
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