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Re: How Come It's A Transposing Instrument?

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2021-08-27 21:00

In short, when the clarinet was first developed it didn't have enough keys to play all the sharps and flats so a composer used a different Clarinet to compensate. I'm not sure why they didn't just write everything for C clarinet but obviously the Bb and the A clarinet became the standards. My guess, because to the tone quality. There's very few solo and chamber music works in C clarinet. I've heard of a few but don't remember which they are by some very early composers. Sometimes Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert used it in some movements either for tone color or in order to be able to play all the sharps and flats. Even Berlioz, Brahms and Tchaikovsky and others used the C clarinet in some scores when the others were capable of playing every note.

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