Klarinet Archive - Posting 000536.txt from 1999/10
From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] The first two bars
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:17:10 -0400
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Tony Pay schrieb:
> Following on from the thread about embellishments in classical music --
> 'what thread was that?' I hear you cry -- I want to make an observation
> about the first two bars of the Mozart clarinet concerto, and how we may
> think of them.
>
> - snip -
>
>
> In fact, I have said here previously that the second bar of the Mozart
> concerto is an embellishment of the first bar. (I admit that I noticed
> this only a few years ago myself.)
>
> Perhaps some people here remember my saying this, and some may even have
> thought it an interesting observation.
>
> However, it's worth repeating, I think, because looking at the first two
> bars of the concerto in this way undermines a very common modern sort of
> interpretation that 'swoons' its 'meaningful' way from the first to the
> second bar, as though what Mozart has written in these two bars is
> already a stroke of genius in itself.
>
> Which of course, it isn't.
>
> Though I have no experience of the matter, it would not surprise me to
> learn that this 'swooning' approach is precisely the way in which
> certain 'legendary' performers (not 'necessarily' Americans, I hasten to
> add), have 'taught' the passage. (I merely borrow here the language that
> I have encountered on this list. That sort of 'teaching' is anathema to
> me.)
>
Tony, is this swooning what you mean when you say modern performers seem to
always need to make the phrase "go somewhere"?
> - snip -
>
> I also want to say that I put the cork grease on the tenons of the upper
> joint with my right hand. Then I wipe my right hand, and switch to the
> left hand for the lower joint, thus avoiding (possibly, by an as yet
> unelucidated process) damage to the bell by the application of external
> grease.)
>
This seems to correspond to the ancient Chinese Stag-exercise. Make sure
you're not facing west when you do this!
David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.de
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