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Author: Katie
Date: 2001-07-23 05:45
I am looking for pieces for 2-4 w/ band accompaniment. I am a music major and I am doing some research for my old high school band director. He has a few really good clarinetists (including a bass clarinetist) that he would like to feature at the state music ed convention in the fall. Any suggestions?
Katie
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2001-07-23 12:52
Hi Katie,
I did a quick check of the Sneezy composition database for clarinet [and] band and it didn't turn up much. Mark (Charette) may find more and respond. You might want to surf around in there (since it *is* a research project). Also check sheet music plus (link from Sneezy's home page and www.luybenmusic.com. Another source would be the Schirmer web page (particularly for rentals) as well as other publishers' sites. A call to Eble Music might yield something because they seem to have people knowledgable in the literature.
Off the top of my head, I think that one or both the Mendelssohn Concert Pieces (Konzertstüken) have been arranged for 2 clarinets and band (second part could be played on bass). Also there is a recording of the Krommer 2-clarinet concerto(Op. 35) with band by Cindy and Don Christensen on the Koch Schwann label (3-1067-2). That recording also has a Concertante by Iwan Müller (Op. 23) and an anonymous "Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart" both for 2 clarinets. The music may or may not be available. The Christensens have, at least occasionally, been participants in discussions on the Klarinet list. If you search the list on their name, it may yield additional suggestions as well as an e-mail address that might still work.
When I was a senior in high school, the band director did the Weber Concertino with the entire first clarinet section playing the solo part in unison. It actually worked pretty well as I recall. Another possibility might be to split a solo and have different soloists play different sections. One possibility that might work well along this line would be "A Tribute to Artie Shaw" arranged by James Christensen (I don't know whether he's related to Don or not). This has four of Shaw's signature pieces, "Dancing in the Dark," "Begin the Beguine," "Star Dust," and "Frenesi." A different soloist could take each song (though that would make the solos pretty short.
Please let us know shat you turn up.
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Author: Allen Cole
Date: 2001-07-24 03:55
I don't know what exactly your band director's looking for, but on the lighter side there are arrangements of the Clarinet Polka available with two-part harmony.
The arrangement that I played was from Germany under the title "Klarinetten Muck'l." This is a pretty standard piece for community bands in Bavaria. Should be fairly challenging technically for a high schooler.
I don't know who the publisher is, but probably someone like Ewoton Musikverlag, or maybe Georg Bauer. You might try JW Pepper, or typing it into a German-language search engine like yahoo.de.
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Author: Jerry McD.
Date: 2001-07-24 14:13
Katie,
I played a piece called "Clarinet Candy" by Leroy Anderson. It is a solo for the entire section. I played it with an orchestra but I would be willing to bet there is a band arrangement as well. The piece is certainly not Mozart but it is fun to play and listen to. Decent high school players could cut the parts with a little work. Since you're doing a 'project', if there isn't a band arrangement available, you could do one! :^)
Good Luck!
Jerry McD.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-07-29 17:51
You should try the Mendelssohn concert pieces. They're almost like mini-concertos. I especially like No. 2. They were originally for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra and the bass clarinet could play the basset horn part. The backup is fairly light and could be arranged for band without much difficulty if you can't find the version Jack mentioned.
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