Nothing is too difficult if you’re willing to put the time in to practice. My quartet played this and we made Allstate. I don’t think I’ve had more fun playing a piece. I played first part.
If you want more suggestions, I also love others Saint-Saens works like introduction et rondo Capriccioso, it would be interesting for solo clarinet and piano, or some selections of carnival des animaux for a clarinet ensemble ;)
This sounds good I like it! Though I think that perhaps you started using the lowest and highest notes you had at hand too early, leaving little textural possibilities for the climax. It's not pointless to use the rather high notes of the Bass clarinet and leave it's very strong lowest notes for the climax. Aside from that though, it's a very solid arrangement. This is of course just an opinion/suggestion
Little Red Fox if you play bass clarinet, look up the Edmund Wells Bass Clarinet Quartet version of this. You can buy the music from that one from Cornelius Boots' page. Warning: You have to be comfortable with altissimo, up to C# above alt. C!
Uhhh. This isn’t possible at speed. Those 16th notes are a near unplayable run. This is just for listening. Those 8th notes are playable, but the 16th notes are not. Edit: This is at the interpretation of high-school. I intend this comment as it is nigh impossible for High-school level or below.
... I wish u put MIDI in the title. I gave it a thumbs up for a good arrangement but it would be exciting to ACTUALLY hear the piece being played. :/ Disappointed
It was a great arrangement. But when you changed to the key of C-Sharp Major, I would have changed to the key of D-flat major. The reason is that you have written a lot of what we’re supposed to E-sharps as F-naturals in the section in the key of C-sharp. Because of this, it would have been better if you’d used D-flat major instead.
As a piano player, this looks fairly easy, but then I remembered... Clarinets play with the lungs, and notes are super easy on the piano. You poor souls😔
The voicing is too evenly distributed in an attempt to give all players equal challenges. But a 3rd Clarinetist is simply not used to playing runs like that. One should never give a high melody line to the 3rd player or have the second player, jump over the first.
Quotenwagnerianer The whole point of a chamber piece like this though is that each part contains their own unique challenges, as a composer of a chamber piece will assume equal competency among all players in the quartet.
Am I the only one who feels like the bass clarinet is dragging? I know that shouldn't be possible, because it's a midi, but when I'm focusing my attention on the bass line it consistently feels behind the beat.