Klarinet Archive - Posting 000483.txt from 1998/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: unrecorded pieces and Amadeus symphony
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:21:54 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.12
> Subj: [kl] re: unrecorded pieces and Amadeus symphony

> Re: unrecorded pieces:
> I have no idea about 423 nor 317 nor even 549-2 being the KV. for the duets
> (but the last sounds best - it is a two volume set and sounds like late
> Mozart) for my copy has no number on it (very kind of the American Music
> Co.). This, however, brings up another question: why is Kochel ("o" has an
> umlaut) abbreviated KV? There's no V in Kochel.

The letters "KV" stand for "Koechel Verzeichnis" which is translated
as Koechel catalog. Sometimes you see "KE" which stands for "Koechel
Einstein" representing the Koechel numbers that were modified by
Alfred Einstein in the 1930s. Sometimes you see "K. Anh." which
stands for "Koechel Anhang" which means an appendix to the Koechel
catalog, and finally, sometimes you see "K. App." which is identical
to "K. Anh."

As for stylisitic elements in Mozart's part writing, there are a number
of things that you can read, but the very best is Robert Levin's
"Who Wrote Mozart Wind Concertante." It was printed in a very small
edition and you will have to go to a large music library to find a
copy. But he does a number of horn writing, flute writing, oboe
writing, and bassoon writing that will last for two centuries before
anyone does it better. While he does also speak to clarinet writing,
the book's interests lie in a quartet of winds that exclude the clarinet
so there is less there than elsewhere.

As for what it is you want to have, I can understand that you would
like the solution to your problem all laid out for you, but like most
things that interest people, topics like that are of interest
precisely because they have not been investigated and have no easy
answers. You have to do the research to answer questions like that
yourself.

It is not a question that you would be given for a college paper
because it is terra incognita. Instead it is a topic for a doctoral
dissertation.

Go to work!

>
> Re: amadeus symphony
> Thank you, Dan, for the information regarding writing in Mozart's style.
> However, I wanted a source that would tell me about all parts and putting
> them together. Your information is the exact right type, but only pertains
> to clarinet (and some other winds - trumpet, for example). Info such as
> "use a 2-5-1 when entering a cadence only in the 1st or last movements" (I
> have no idea whether this holds any validity, it just sounds good). If
> anyone knows of a book or set thereof containing such rules, I would love to
> obtain it.
>
> Also, on a completely different topic, Shouryu Nohe wrote "They
> are constructed well and are quite decent - but are just under par (or is
> it over par? I don't play golf...) with what is considered a proline sax."
> We have someone on the list in DNA analysis, right? How can someone make a
> sax out of proline?
>
> -James
>
>
>
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Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
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