 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: m1964
Date: 2025-05-25 05:55
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Hi all,
The original parts are for the A clarinet.
In Andantino, where key change brings four flats, clarinet plays in unison with oboe.
While not difficult technically (the tempo is slow), the melody does not sound very nice due to the many throat notes.
I believe the Andantino section sounds better using a B-flat, however there is no time to switch back to A clarinet so the last section would be in E major using a B-flat, instead of being in F major using the A clarinet. Still, it is playable on a B-flat.
I you played this music, did you consider using a B-flat?
Please, share your experience.
thank you
Post Edited (2025-05-25 06:03)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2025-05-25 06:17
Mine would not be the last word by any means. But I've played it, and I never really considered changing clarinets. I'm not sure what you mean by "the melody does not sound very nice due to the many throat notes." Moving from A to Bb clarinet doesn't move the passage much out of the throat register. The fingerings arguably are a tad more graceful in G Major, but IMHO it isn't a good enough reason to switch clarinets.
Karl
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-05-25 16:27
The switch to G major does remove the throat Bb's . . . That Bb seems to be the most "needy" of the throat tones. The best resonance fingerings for it can vary between clarinets. Sometimes the best fingering is difficult or impractical in passages moving between clarion and throat.
I remember a clarinetist who mentioned online the problem of blending the sound of throat tones and the lower clarion into one another (it might have been Thea King.) Not perfectly simple to do. Clarion B is another note whose tone sticks out a bit, even in its own register.
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