Klarinet Archive - Posting 000320.txt from 1998/02

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Cadenza Books???
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 21:39:42 -0500

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> Well, I wanted Elizabeth to struggle with it for a while and solve the
> problem herself rather than giving her the answer. She will take 10
> steps forward if she figures it out herself, and 0 steps forward if I
> tell her the solution. So let me hold off for a couple of days, but I
> will put your note in my save box and answer it over the weekend if
> Elizabeth does not want to bite. But I will tell you this: it is
> an onn/off switch. A single thing, if present, says "Cadenza" and
> if that thing is not present, it says something else. Just look
> at any Mozart piano concerto and find the cadenza. Then take another
> concerto, a different one of course, but from no later than 1850
> because the rules slowly began to change, and look at another
> cadenza. Look for some similiarity, something that appears in both
> cadenzas. And you should be looking at the accompaniment, not the
> solo music because it is in the accompaniment that it happens.

You are sly....oh so sly......

RG