Klarinet Archive - Posting 000832.txt from 1998/10

From: Hsuan-Yi Chen <hschen@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Three Pieces (fwd)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:32:45 -0400

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Tony Pay wrote:

> > >
> > > > Just a few things to think about:
> > > >
> > > > Stravinsky said they were 'snapshots' of improvisations.
> > > >
> > > > Why is the loudest dynamic in the second piece, mf?
> > > >
> > > > 'How many people' are there in each of the movements? Are there
> > > > *any*?
> > > >
> > > > Following on from this last, what high-level analogy might there
> > > > be between these three pieces and the three movements of the
> > > > Schumann Fantasiestucke?-)
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> By the way, surely someone can do better with the 'mf' question than
> what's been suggested so far!
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> Tony
> --

I hope this does not sound too silly: The intensity is
building up gradually through out the three, the first one is the most
soft, the third is the most bright and intense. The 'mf' in the second
piece perhaps points out the position of this piece in the whole work.
Although those spots are the most intense in the second piece, a more
intense number three is yet to be played (by a Bb clarinet!).

Hsuan-Yi Chen

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