Klarinet Archive - Posting 000786.txt from 1996/04

From: Bruce Blanton <B_Blanton@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Difficult Bit in Mozart Concerto
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:37:01 -0400

>Hello Dave and welcome to the list.
>
>>Hello everyone! I'm not only a new kid on the block, but I'm also new to the
>>world of the Internet. The correspondence begun by Ian Dilley on a difficult
>>part in the third movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (measures 311-314)
>>has prompted me to attempt posting my first message.
>>
>>It has been pointed out that a number of performers and teachers play this
>>passage an octave lower. This sounded like an excellent idea to me until I
>>got to the middle C in measure 312! How does one play this note an octave
>>lower without a basset clarinet?
>
>You don't- you just play another (low) G instead. It's a compromise; the
>choice is either a) change the note but play the passage in the right
>register or b) play the right notes in the wrong octave. Personally I
>choose a).

Lorne, I may be misinterpreting your comment, but I think you meant to say
"play another low F (not G)" in place of the low C.

I like your other suggestions also.

>
>Here are another few spots where the same choice can be made (if you want
>to get serious about it, consult one of the reconstructed basset versions
>such as the Schott by Alan Hacker, or the Neue Mozart Ausgabe which should
>be in a library near you):
>
>Mvt 1, mm 145-7: these arpeggios should not go up to high E/F#/G, it puts a
>false climax at the wrong point in the phrase. You can't take the starting
>notes down, but the rest of the arps can be played an octave lower.
>
>mvt 1, m 337: play the first half of the bar (after the first C) down the
>octave. This restores the progression from the bottom of the horn to the
>top.
>
>mvt 3, mm 301-2: play the first three arpeggios down the octave (again,
>except for the first note of each).
>
>Of course, as you know from this discussion, the original manuscript is
>lost, so these are suggestions from people who have studied all the
>available info, compared with other works of Mozart and his contemporaries,
>played the concerto on basset clarinets, etc. In other words they're
>reasonably reliable suggestions, but we'll probably never know for sure.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>LGB Lorne G Buick St. John's
> mcheramy@-----.ca Newfoundland
> Canada

   
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