Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 1996/05

From: Gregory Andrew Seigel <gas11@-----.EDU>
Subj: K622 Grace Notes -
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 14:10:11 -0400

Fellow KLARINETers -

I have a question regarding grace notes in the Mozart Concerto. In the
first movement, I believe all of the grace notes are commonly played (and
recorded) as regular 16th notes. I believe it's the 5th bar of the solo
entrance that I'm talking about. (I don't have the part in front of me,
so I can't provide measure numbers). This comes as no surprise to me,
as I've been taught that this is a fairly standard interpretation of
this type of ornamentation in Classical music.

I think the same holds true in the second movement, where a grace note
precedes a dotted eighth/sixteenth figure. It is most often performed as
a sixteenth/eighth/sixteenth passage.

But in the third movement, it seems that the standard interpretation
changes. Most (if not all?) of the graces are performed as fast graces -
"flicks" for lack of a better word.

Why is this? Can someone provide an explanation, and has anyone else
wondered about this? Or am I perhaps just thinking too much off of two
hours of sleep in the last two days. If this isn't clear, I can repost
with a clearer and more detailed (measure numbers) posting.

Thank you

Andrew Seigel
California State University, Fresno
gas11@-----.edu