Klarinet Archive - Posting 000540.txt from 1998/10

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Three Pieces
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:02:32 -0400

I can comment (it's coffee break time)--but I am not a Stravinsky scholar.
All the below is hearsay, mostly from a master class I attended w/ Stanley
Hasty and lessons on and off for years w/ Bill McColl.

> >Stravinsky said they were 'snapshots' of improvisations.

The folklore is that they're "transcriptions" of Sidney Bechet, who
Stravinsky heard in a bar in Paris. Almost certainly not true--there are
too many compositional elements in the 3 pieces that seen in Stravinsky's
other works, and the harmonic progressions aren't anywhere else in Mr.
Bechet's world.

> >Why is the loudest dynamic in the second piece, mf?

To make it harder, of course.

> >'How many people' are there in each of the movements?

One. It's for solo clarinet.

> >Following on from this last, what high-level analogy might there be
> >between these three pieces and the three movements of the Schumann
> >Fantasiestucke?-)

Huh?

kjf

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