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Why we should love the Alto Clarinet Interesting Instruments
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A video about one of the most unfairly derided woodwind instruments: the E flat Alto Clarinet. As a composer, I am 'Pro-Alto'! • Timestamps: • 0:06 What is an Alto Clarinet? • 0:19 Related Instruments: The Basset Horn • 0:57 Which instrument do composers write for? • 2:05 How can this be confusing? • 4:18 What's the deal with the Alto Clarinet? • 5:12 Problems: reasons why people might hate the Alto • 8:00 How to write for the Alto Clarinet; What the Alto Clarinet can do • 10:05 Effective scoring combinations • 10:48 Alto Clarinet in the orchestra • 11:58 Josef Holbrooke's use of the Alto Clarinet (orchestra) • 13:00 The Alto Clarinet in the modern wind band • 14:20 Scoring tips in a wind band using the Alto Clarinet • 16:51 Summary of the Alto Clarinet's capabilities; call to composers and bands to embrace it and use it! • Points raised include: • -The Alto Clarinet's place in the clarinet family, and a comparison with its relative, the Basset Horn • -An exploration of a couple of arguments that exist with regard to the possiblity of changing the instrument's name to Tenor Clarinet • -Why the Bass Clarinet may have usurped the Alto in the orchestra in the 19th century • -Various reasons as to why people hate or ridicule the instrument • -How to write for the instrument; reference to its low, middle high registers with some examples; what the instrument can do • -Scoring combinations and instrument pairings that are effective • -Use of the Alto Clarinet in the orchestra, with reference to Josef Holbrooke's treatment of the Alto Clarinet/Basset Horn in a few of his works • -The Alto's place in the wind band today; and how including it gives the Bass Clarinet a bit of a much-needed break • -Orchestration examples showing various ways of employing the Alto Clarinet in the woodwind section in a band; how it can add depth, lighten the texture, carry the melody, add strength to a melody in the alto/tenor register, and contribute to a full woodwind tutti • -Summary of why we should be using the Alto more • Patreon: / danthefugueguy • www.danielbasford.co.uk • Further info: • Mozart Divertimento (audio excerpt at 1:45) - full live performance: • • Mozart - Divertimento No. 1 for Three... • The performance of 'Rufford Park Poachers' from Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) is from Dallas Wind Symphony, cond. Junkin, Reference Recordings 2012 • • Lincolnshire Posy: III. Rufford Park ... . • This excerpt is used under Fair Use/Fair Dealing as it forms part of an educational discussion and informative video, and is not detrimental to the market. • My orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia Fugue in C minor BWV 582 for band (excerpt shown 8:50) is available at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/... • Further reading sources of some info: • Alto Clarinet: The Endangered Species of the American Band (Mark Wolbers) • https://depts.washington.edu/uwwinds/... • The Unrealised Potential of the Alto Clarinet (Annabelle Inhyung Hwang) - includes a comprehensive discussion on extended techniques https://na-st01.ext.exlibrisgroup.com... • A clip from Family Guy (dubbed in German) is used under Fair Use/Fair Dealing as (a) it is employed out of context; (b) is transformative in nature; and (c) is not detirmental to the market. • #altoclarinet #clarinet #windband
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