Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 1996/11

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.net>
Subj: Schumann: ambiguous notation
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:55:48 -0500

Hi all. I am currently rehearsing Schumann's Marchenerzahlungen (Fairy
Tales) (for clarinet, viola and piano) for a concert this weekend and we
have a question about the trills and nachschlags (turns at the end of
trills) in the first movement. Some of the trills are written with
nachschlag, and with a sharp above the trill sign (presumably indicating
that the upper note of the trill is to be raised, making a whole-tone trill
instead of a semi-tone). Some however have no nachschlag, but a sharp
_after_ the trill sign. If the sharp is meant to apply to the trill, this
results in some cases in an augmented second, which sounds very odd. Does
this mean the sharp is meant to apply to the (unwritten) nachschlag? If so,
why didn't he just write the nachschlag? Is there some other possibility
I'm overlooking?

Perplexed in St. John's

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