07-22-2019, 12:26 AM
(07-20-2019, 02:46 PM)Terry93D Wrote: One orchestration trick I read a while ago was: never write octaves for your clarinet! Even if they play the fundamentals in tune, the way overtones and partials stack with clarinets mean that octaves sound out-of-tune.
Sorry, I must have missed this comment.
So, um, what about bass clarinet then? It's not an instrument I use overly much personally, but thinking back to various movie scores I have a strong notion that it's commonly used for octave-doubling much as contrabasses will double the cellos. Then again, maybe you're referring to octaves in regular Bb clarinets.
