Klarinet Archive - Posting 000728.txt from 1998/07

From: merlinw@-----.ca
Subj: Re: [kl] About the Mozart concerto on B-flat clarinet
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:56:00 -0400

On 07/21/98 20:01:14 you wrote:

>A work of music is not a collection of notes. It is a collection of
>specific notes in a context, one of whose elements, at least for music
>of the 18th century, is the key of the piece. Another is the instrument
>on which the work is executed.
>Such a work is the sum of its constituent parts and, if one should
>remove one of those parts (such as substituting a flute for a clarinet),
>then the context of the work changes. I think that should matter to
>clarinet players and it saddens me to hear people suggest that these
>elements are not important.

Interesting.

What's even more interesting to me is the fact that Mozart wrote a concerto for oboe (K. 314) , then TRANSPOSED the same piece of music and relabelled it a flute concerto.

Merlin Williams
merlinw@-----.ca
http://www.netcom.ca/~merlinw
(A member of the Sax Ring!)

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