On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:26 PM, keith helgesen wrote:
Some years ago, as a high school band teacher, I required my two bass
clari
players to read transposed Bass Clari parts (up 9th) and *concert
pitch*
bass clef. ...
It may not be standard practice, but I have yet to find a downside to
it!
Clarinettists need to be able to read at concert pitch anyway, because
of all the parts for clarinet in C that exist. Many publishers offer Bb
versions of these--but many others don't, and if your parts come from a
library you've no choice in any event.
Having said that, though, I feel a need to caution the composers on
this list that this does not give them any go-ahead to write
non-transposing cl. parts. Though many clarinettists *can* read in C,
they don't like it, and they don't read concert-pitch stuff with
anywhere near the facility they bring to Bb or A parts.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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