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Re: Musical Alternatives to Rose

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-08-14 04:00

sfalexi wrote:

> I have a book called "classical studies" which is violin
> partitas and sonatas transcribed for clarinet. It's great to
> work on and sounds great.
>
Are they in the original concert keys or have they been transposed to different keys to make them more clarinet-friendly?

> If we're the "violins" of the wind ensemble, play violin stuff.

Of course, violinists and violin students spend a great deal of time with technical studies that are much drier and "exercis-y" than almost anything clarinetists use (possibly excepting the interval studies in methods like Klose and Baermann). Treating clarinets like the "violins of the wind ensemble" is one of the great weaknesses of a lot of band and wind ensemble music.

Also, keep in mind that most of Rose's etudes *are* violin studies - in fact, I think possibly everything except the 32 studies, which are adapted from Ferling oboe studies (which may or may not have been originally by Ferling for oboe). The 40 Studies come from violin collections by such as Mazas, Kreutzer, Schubert, Pleyel, etc... The 20 Grand Studies are based, I think fairly faithfully, on standard violin etudes by Rode.

There are a couple of compilations of concert pieces for clarinet and piano - one edited by Bonade (16 Grands Solos de Concert) and another edited by William Stubbins (Recital Literature for the Clarinet). Both are original pieces for clarinet and piano and meant for performance. I also dug up in my file cabinet an edition by Langenus of the Chaconne from the Bach D minor Partita and a collection called Bach for the Clarinet "transcribed by Eric Simon." I haven't played these last in a very long time and don't remember what editing was done, but I recognize the few I've looked at as coming from either the Cello Suites, the Violin Partitas or the Inventions, though I couldn't swear they're in their original keys or completely intact.

Karl

Post Edited (2016-08-14 04:01)

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