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Once Upon A Mattress/ Bass clarinet

Author: FrankM
Date: 2006-11-17 12:37

I’m doing the bass clarinet part on “Once Upon A Mattress”…opening night was last night. I’m in no position to try and guess what an arranger was thinking, but the bass clarinet book ( no doubles) looks to me like a regular clarinet book that was mislabeled. By that I mean the range is that which I would not normally associate with the bass. I’ve played bass on most common musicals, and the parts are almost always written for the bottom end of the instrument…what my buddy describes as the sound you feel as much as you hear. The Bb clarinet player looked at my book and said that it “looks” like a soprano clarinet part…..much of it written above the range either of us would normally associate with a bass clarinet in a musical. Maybe the arranger just wanted to give me a work out !

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