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Re: Curiosity about a piece of music

Author: mrn
Date: 2009-09-24 02:03

If you have an A clarinet and you think you can do a better job playing it on the A clarinet, then I say more power to you--go ahead and transpose.

On the other hand, if you're perfectly comfortable playing it on the Bb, then just stick with the Bb.

Only you can decide what's best for you, though. What I'd do is take a few passages representative of the difficulty of the piece and try transposing those over to the A and see which works better for you. Judging from the key signatures, I'd expect it to be easier on the A clarinet (where you have 1-2 flats instead of 3-4 sharps), but that's not necessarily the case. You really have to try these things out to be sure, especially if there are a lot of accidentals in the part--my orchestra played a piece last year in which the first page was easier to play in the key of Db rather than D simply because the part was full of natural signs.

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