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Bach Goes to Town: Prelude and Fugue in Swing (for clarinet quartet).(Book Review)
by Alec Templeton. Arranged by Henry Brant. Emerson Edition/Theodore Presser Co. (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 1938. Score and parts, $28.95. Intermediate.
Welsh-born Alec (Andrew) Templeton, pianist, musical entertainer and composer, was perhaps best known for his novelty pieces, parodies and "jazz skits" on the classics, including "Mozart Matriculates," "Mendelssohn Mows 'em Down," "Debussy in Dubuque," "Through the Ring in Five Minutes," "Scarlatti Stoops to Conga" and "Bach Goes to Town." Esteemed Canadian-American composer Henry Brant is most closely associated with spatial music or music for spatially separated groups, a genre he pioneered. As a young man in the 1930s and '40s, Brant earned his living as a commercial arranger, composer and conductor in radio, films and jazz. His arrangement of "Bach Goes to Town" was done in those early years.
"Bach Goes to Town: Prelude and Fugue in Swing" is better known in its big band version, but it has been arranged for numerous--and disparate--instrumental combinations including orchestra, guitar duo and even recorder ensemble. This arrangement for clarinet quartet recently has been re-released by Emerson. It is written for four B-flat clarinets, parts and full score included.
Though the subtitle suggests swing, in fact, few swing elements are employed, with scant opportunities to enhance the effect by adding more of one's own. (Swing is notated with dotted rhythms.) When ...
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