Klarinet Archive - Posting 000958.txt from 1997/03

From: Don and Cindy Christensen <chr@-----.DE>
Subj: Re: accidentals
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 06:56:47 -0500

>Regarding accidentals - I have a student working on Cahuzac "Arlequin",
>and I have a few questions - the accidentals are a bit vague in the
>absence of bar lines.

The accidentals in this piece are normally only valid within a group of
beamed notes. The piece is quite traditional and intuitive. Your student
is quite perceptive to have noticed these printing mistakes. I never had
before.

I checked my copy of the Cahuzac manuscript of the original 1952 version
(which was substantially revised for publication in 1972). This makes it
impossible to definitively answer your questions, but from context I
would bet on:

>p.2 first line, 6th note - G or G# ?

G#

>p.2 - 4th line - is the B in the fourth note group a Bb or natural?

Bb

BTW, just to make life a little more interesting for your student, the
1952 manuscript puts the tempo at 152.

Don Christensen
chr@-----.de