Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1997/07

From: rteitelbaum@-----.com (Rob Teitelbaum)
Subj: Re: Rose Etudes
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:07:32 -0400

Hello everyone, it's good to be back on the list. I went through
e-withdrawals after a month without e-mail, so I decided to get back
into the '90's. :)

Anyway, with regard to Craig's question on the Rose Etudes:
I think No. 21 is melodic enough in its own right without being "spiced
up." It is, IMHO, a very fine etude that lives up to its heading of
"Cantabile." As for the cadenza in this composition, my only "hint"
would be not to give one. You're unaccompanied, so milk it for all it's
worth and make it shine however you want to. But, if you're really
looking for something concrete, I like to play this as getting gradually
slower on the way down (the Fischer edition even has the last four notes before the low E as being half the tempo of their predecessors), with an accelerando on the upward chromatic scale, then a gradual ritardando
turning into a molto ritard on the B''-A'' transition, followed by a
tempo at the mf. Longer to explain than to do, I think. But this is only
one person's interpretation, and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

No. 24 is considerably more difficult to make melodic, I think. My only
suggestion would be on the least-melodic part, the four repeated B-flats
that keep recurring. Consecutive executions of the same note usually
indicates a musical "dragging of the feet", or so I've been taught. But
for this effect to work, it's important for the notes to be even in
length and to all be articulated exactly the same. This can, of course, be quite difficult.

Well, that's my two bits, which I can say now that I've learned how much
that is.

Rob Teitelbaum
Claremont McKenna College, though not right now

(Please note address change: rteitelbaum@-----.com)

   
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