Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 1996/04

From: Karl Krelove <KClarinet@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Difficult Bit in Mozart Concerto
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:30:14 -0400

In a message dated 96-04-26 21:37:02 EDT, Lorne Buick writes:

>...I don't have my score handy, just Hacker's piano reduction. At that point
>(m312, 2nd 8th) the piano plays only A's , so while the harmony is tonic (A
>major) I guess you could get away with the concert D as a passing note, or
>an implied IV chord if you wanted to be pedantic about it. It does make
>more sense melodically in the passage. The G (concert E, which would fit
>the tonic chord) is Hacker's suggestion.

FWIW, my Kalmus score shows a unison concert A in the accompaniment (it's
only violins and violas) at that spot, as do the three piano editions I own.
If it means anything, Bellison in the old Carl Fischer edition actually
rewrote the passage in the lower octave and wrote F's in place of the low
C's. I guess we can admire Mozart's foresight in writing a unison in the
accompaniment at that very spot so we who don't have C extensions can get
away with almost any note we like.