Klarinet Archive - Posting 000881.txt from 1997/12

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Morales
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:13:42 -0500

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> > No offense meant, but this has really drifted quite a bit off-center. The
> > original post was about using the correct instrument to allow the
> > performer to play the notes Mozart wrote.....not to guess at what we think
> > he wanted in a particular phrase/sound/tone...etc. The original post
> > asked if we should be presenting the notes that Mozart wrote......even if
> > it inolves an instrument that has only begun to be manufactured again and
> > is expensive (or if one knows the trick to extending a Bb clarinet with a
> > low Eb to a D!) or if we should just go ahead and play the edition
> > everyone has used for nearly 100 years (which is clearly NOT what Mozart
> > specified).
> >
> > Roger Garrett
> > IWU
>
> Roger, let me give a different view. One of the great pleasures of
> any topic is that discussion of it leads to other topics, and they
> to even others. It is a natural process for one idea to flow to
> another and another and another until one cannot understand how one
> got to where you are at. And when you look at the 100th note, you
> say, "This has nothing to do with the original posting."
>
> One way around this is to have the topic altered but connected; i.e.,
> Subject: Performance accuracy (used to be Morales, etc.).
>
> But I would suggest that interfering with the flow of thoughts that
> arise from one point and lead to another defeats the whole purpose
> of having a list such as ours.

Now where in my message (which you graciously reprinted) does it say I
want the flow to change? I was merely pointing out (probably what
everyone already knew anyway) that the current posting really had nothing
at all to do with the original......the most obvious reason being that
someone (I don't remember who) became upset that the suggestion was being
made that all music be played exactly as the composer wanted......which is
to say significantly different than the suggestion that we play on the
correct horn because the correct notes would then be possible to reach.
It was my impression that the person who was upset had either not seen the
initial posting regarding Morales and the Basset Clarinet (in Bb) or that
the person had misconstrued the thread. My posting was simply a reminder
about the inital post and why we were discussing composer intentions.

That's all I was attempting, probably in my very primitive, abrupt,
and non-stylish to say. But.....I absolutely do agree with your
suggestion that interfering with the flow is not a good idea.....I
apologize if it appeared that I was trying to interfere with the flow!

Roger Garrett
IWU