Klarinet Archive - Posting 000937.txt from 2000/10

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Minor key - Mendelssohn Octet
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:05:25 -0400

<><> Dan Leeson wrote:
Interesting. I find it a happy, gay, and charming work.

Without meaning to repeat myself unnecessarily, it was the change of
key in the second movement that we were discussing, wasn't it? Not the
entire piece, most of which is in a major key? The CD liner says the
same things about the entire piece as you do: joyous, exalted, and so
forth. But the second movement....?? Is a minor key 'plaintive' of
itself, or is this merely a 'learned' response of some cultures?

The fact that neither you nor the CD liner make any comment about
what I perceive as a drastic change of mood is evidence of my own
'learned' perceptions, I suppose.
But it's good music, and so I'm not complaining about having bought
the recording.

Cheers,
Bill

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