The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-10-07 14:11
It depends on how comfortable you are in G# (= Ab) major. If you can play the solo the with the necessary facility, there's no reason in the world to avoid it.
Relatively few clarinetist own C clarinets, and parts for C clarinet are routinely transposed, even though the difference in color between Bb and C instruments is considerably larger than between Bb and A.
You use the instrument that works best. For example, the cadenza in Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana, written for C clarinet (and merely difficult on the C), is truly ferocious on the Bb, but possible on the A. Most players who don't have a C play it on the A.
Read http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1998/03/001402.txt and http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1998/03/001413.txt for what one of the great players had to say. Also http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=298046&t=298020.
You should be able to get the appropriate tone color on any instrument. It's one of the skills advanced players work on. Look on it as a challenge rather than a problem.
Ken Shaw
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2009-10-07 05:39 |
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