Author: CL
Date: 2011-12-13 17:15
In fact, if I were to keep it at the pitch it is in, it seems like perhaps my 'option 3' is best? Then we avoid double sharps/flats and we avoid the same note name flitting between sharps and naturals? And as you say above Sean, clarinettists are used to playing in flats even if everyone else in in sharps.
I know it seems like I'm being obstinate about not shifting the whole piece up a semitone, but at this point (deadline is in a few days) there are so many other things - harmonics that would no longer work (apart from making them artificial), harp pedallings to be changed, string parts that would become twice as difficult and/or take on a different character etc etc. that on balance mean that making life slightly awkward for the bass clarinettist is, unfortunately, probably the lesser of various evils. Should I have thought right from the start, before I composed any of the rest of the piece, whether these problems would arise? - evidently! I underestimated the problems that would be caused when I came to transpose the clarinet parts. Live and learn...
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