Klarinet Archive - Posting 000562.txt from 1999/10

From: "Michael Whight" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] The first two bars
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:37:34 -0400

Nicholas Harnoncourt has an interesting viewpoint on classical phrasing. He
describes it as rhetorical phrasing.

In our lives the most common uses of rhetoric are political speeches and
washing powder adverts. So think of this procedure.

1. Persil washes at 40 degrees

2. It passes the critical blue-whiteness test

3. It will not let your colours fade - SO

4 GO AND BUY SOME TODAY

Apply it to the first sentence of the Mozart Concerto where

1.= bars 1-2
2.= bars 3-4
3.= bars 5-6 concluding in
4.= bars 7-8

Each part of the sentence structure then has a certain function/development
leading to a grand conclusion. What is evident about this approach is that
the development of the sentence is dependent on how we play the first note
of each successive phrase.

Michael

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