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 Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: andrewsong 
Date:   2011-05-28 23:22

I was wodnering if anyone could be able to send me a part of the Brahms or Mozart clarinet Quintet transposed to a Bb part. I don't have my A clarinet available at the moement and we will be performing this piece soon...



Post Edited (2011-05-28 23:23)

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2011-05-29 02:57

My very old Music Minus One LP of the Mozart Quintet includes a copy of the clarinet part transposed down a half step to play on the Bb. It's an excellent exercise and works surprisingly well, but I wouldn't perform it, particularly if I didn't have the low Eb key extension.

There may be a version with the string parts transposed up, but string players are much more comfortable in sharp keys. They'll complain bitterly about playing in Bb for the Mozart, and even more bitterly about playing in C minor for the Brahms.

Buy, beg, borrow or steal an A clarinet. Or perhaps put a string down the bore. [wink]

http://test.oodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=261519&t=261431
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=16804&t=16778
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=13462&t=13230
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=15748&t=15741
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=60560&t=60454
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2000/11/000605.txt

Ken Shaw

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: Jack Kissinger 
Date:   2011-05-29 03:10

First link typo corrected.

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=261519&t=261431

Best regards,
jnk

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: concertmaster3 
Date:   2011-05-29 05:17

actually, C minor is a great key for strings! One that lies very well under the fingers on violin.

I do remember seeing a published part for the Mozart, but not sure who the publisher was. A group that I read with regularly brought it out, and it had only the Bb part (so I tried to transpose it to A instead of reading in Bb...).

Have you tried renting an A clarinet?

Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: davyd 
Date:   2011-05-29 18:31

How soon is "soon"? Enough time for you to write out the needed parts, either by hand or with software?

This site

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

has a Finale file for the Mozart, which you could transpose if it's compatible with your version of Finale, if you're a Finale user. Might someone else in your ensemble be able to help you with this?

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: Simon Aldrich 
Date:   2011-05-29 21:48

>I do remember seeing a published part for the Mozart, but not sure who the >publisher was.

You might be thinking of the Cundy-Bettoney edition. They also did an edition of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet transposed into C minor so that the clarinetist could play off the A clarinet part, but on Bb clarinet.

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: Ed Palanker 
Date:   2011-05-30 03:28

My advise, please don't, borrow an A clarinet. You loose the character of the works on a Bb clarinet, not to mention the low E. ESP eddiesclarinet.com

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: concertmaster3 
Date:   2011-05-30 04:49

midwest musical imports (mmimports.com) rents an A clarinet also. that could be a good option.

Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com

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 Re: Brahms/Mozart Quintet Transposed Part?
Author: Simon Aldrich 
Date:   2011-05-30 05:27

>My advise, please don't, borrow an A clarinet.

That would be my advice as well. I wasn't suggesting playing the Mozart Quintet in Bb major or the Brahms Quintet in C minor. I was harking back to an era when pieces were arranged and published a semitone higher for people who did not own an A clarinet.
For one thing it would not be proper to have the strings learn a piece a semitone higher than the key in which they will play it the rest of their lives.

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