Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 2000/11

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] 3/4/5 - Brahms Sonata No. 2
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 07:35:14 -0500

Don`t quite know what you mean Bill, but to end a sequence of triplets <on>
a single triplet note would be:- One triplet quaver followed by two quavers
rests, all enclosed within the bracket including a "3" over the top. Another
way (simpler) would be to write one staccato quaver, followed by one
quaver`s rest. The last note does not strictly have to be a follow thru` of
the "same" note values. It needs to convey mearly that it has to be "short".
There`s no strict science where musical notation is concerned. As long as
the "message" from composer to performer is conveyed, then that last note
could be a monkey.

I was once present at a TV audition many years ago, when the next artiste
supplied his own pianist. He put his music up on the piano, and as I looked,
I saw that it was a stiff board measuring about 4 ft x 3ft. On it in a
series of rows, was his own series of "pictures". Obviously his own method,
created by himself. I tried to collar him afterwards, but he was most
unforthcoming.

The artiste didn`t qualify.

From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] 3/4/5 - Brahms Sonata No. 2

> ..... there's no such thing as a stand-alone 'third note', is there?
>
> Brahms Sonata No. 2 has triplets immediately followed by other 'tuples'
> such as 4 and 5. So I'm wondering if Brahms found himself in the same
> situation and decided, "I need all these notes for their melodic value,
> and when we're playing sixteenth notes as tuples, the small difference
> between 3 and 4, or between 4 and 5, won't offend" ??

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