Klarinet Archive - Posting 001256.txt from 1999/01

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: Poulenc
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:29:59 -0500

> Also the tritone interval B-E# to me seems more appropriate.
Perhaps. I *can* hear it as appropriate now, but it sort of *looks*
wrong, written like that. And when you play the E natural, sounding D,
there's a harmonic pendulum swing between the first and second half of
the bar that seems to me to make the C majorish feel of the Bb clarinet
in the second half work very well. The A clarinet's sounding B against
this C major feels relaxed-bitonal to me rather than dissonant, in
contrast to the definitely dissonant first half, perhaps because this B
is so high, and reached via fifths, very open-string-violin-ish. The
low/high alternation in the A clarinet contributes to the pendulum, too.
Taking the E# makes the bar more of a piece harmonically, which I think
I find less pleasing. Of course, you play the passage a bit differently
according to whether it's E natural or E#, and perhaps reading it as E
natural, and so having come to think of the harmony in the first way and
having plumped for a particular sort of tonal modulation, was what was
blocking my original acceptance of the #. You on the other hand may
have approached it the other way around.
Well, perhaps we'll find out. I still lean towards the E natural
myself, even though I'm now better prepared to find out I'm wrong.
Tony
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Just think, if it were published by International, we could easily dismiss it
as a publisher error ;) Tony, do you know Guy Deplus? Bet he would have had 1st
hand knowledge of the note in question.

David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com

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