Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-01-27 16:11
>>Like Drucker, he doesn't have the ordinary human limitations.
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I've noticed! :-)
Another option, for mere mortals, would be clarinet in E-flat. Hadn't thought of that before, but the lowest note on the violin, open G string, is also the lowest note (E) on an eefer with standard Boehm keywork. In the Presto at the endof the Octet, that high note of e-flat on the fiddle would only be the c two lines above the staff on the eefer.
In the Octet as a whole, the highest note for first violin (and not easy on a violin, btw) or for clarinet in C is a-flat, five spaces above the staff. That's c-flat six spaces above the staff for clarinet in A or b-flat five lines above the staff for clarinet in Bb. Those notes don't appear in that presto section at the end, and they're infrequent elsewhere, but they're exposed, with no place to hide. They have to be decent-sounding notes, not the squeal of the scared pig. On the E-flat soprano, which would put the score in the key of C, the high note would be f four spaces above the staff--which I think most good, college-level eefer players should manage without much trouble.
What's mumbling around in my mind, of course, is the possibility of arranging this piece for a clarinet octet in the original (orchestral) key with uniform tone color and without any handoffs. I don't think it's common to use four e-flat clarinets for a clarinet octet, but since the range of the eefer is essentially the same as the range of the violin, it might make sense--with enough *good* eefer players. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the whole score right now, since my husband only has the first violin part.
Lelia
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Post Edited (2007-01-27 16:19)
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