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Author: Cyril Weinkove
Date: 2002-09-08 21:22
I have joined a wind band and they play many of the standard Marches (Sousa, Alford etc) printed in a format suitable for a lyre, but difficult to read on a music stand. Is there any book with a collection of only the clarinet parts of these marches, which I can use to practise? I don't want to buy all the band parts for the individual marches.
Thanks,
Cyril
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Author: BG
Date: 2002-09-09 03:20
You might try the Walking Frog Record Company. They show a list of at least 31 compact discs that has an optional clarinet part for that cd which you can purchase. The books are an additional $17.95 above and beyond the price of the cd. Several of these are march discs and have the optional 1st clarinet parts. Their website is:
www.walkingfrog.com
I hope this reply will be of help to you. Best of luck!
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Author: jenna
Date: 2002-09-09 03:53
I know a lot of the elder members of our community band actually take their parts and blow them up for their personal use.
How bad is this? I've always wondered what the logistics of that would be as far as copyrights are concerned. I'd never say anything, though. Would fall into the whole area of questioning/disrespecting elders, especially those who have treated me very well for many years.
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-09-09 05:11
When our community band director looked over my stand and asked "What the he** is that!?" I replied "Honey, I blew up the music!"
For those of us with aging eyes, those small pages with even smaller notation of very "busy" parts are difficult to impossible to read even with glasses. At 52 I hate to think of myself as an "elder." Jenna, possibly sooner than you think, you'll be joining us! (I still think of myself as a kid.)
Obviously enlarging copiers and scaners make this a simple task. Though copying violates copyright laws, the origional was purchased, and sits in my folder unused, and the copies are never sold or distributed. I suspect that if the practice was ever questioned, those of us with aging vision could claim protection under the Americans with disabilities act!
In a similar issue, when I "teched" community theatre productions, I was taught by pros to make a "showbook" by copying the script pages onto letter size and punching holes to insert into a looseleaf binder. Again, the script was purchased and sat unused. The purpose was to have room in the margins to write cues and to have a script that would lie flat next to the lighting board. At the end of the run, the book was destroyed.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-09-09 21:04
(1) Raise the stand.
(2) Do what I did -- get a special pair of glasses in focus at 3 feet, and have them made half-moon style, so you look down at music through them, but up at the conductor (if such a thing ever actually happens in band) without them.
Half-blind regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: jenna
Date: 2002-09-10 02:08
Unfortunately, I'm already there, Jim. I'm afraid of getting older jsut because my eyes are so bad now. A lot of the time I can't share a stand because I have to adjust it every which way to read things. Everyone has huge blow ups of standards like When the Saints Go Marching In, because we all stand during performances of this song, which makes for tough reading.
But I am with you on the blow ups. We have envelopes and folders out the wazoo of just marches. We have various parts in our individual folders, march books (often as many as 4-5) made up for each instrument/part, our marching lyres, and let's not forget the envelopes we store the music in anyway. It's amazing the amount of music a band will accumulate in 50-60 years.
And Pleasantville, huh? I think we will actually be somewhere down your way this weekend. The band is marching in the fireman's parade in Wildwood on Saturday.
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