Klarinet Archive - Posting 000436.txt from 2000/11

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms 2nd
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:42:24 -0500

<><> Avrahm Galper wrote:
At the beginning of the Brahms 2nd sonata there is an arpeggio that
ascends and ends with a group of five notes before a final C. There is
no point of subdividing that group. I just play the group as it goes, 4
plus one.

Avrahm, I'm not sure whether you are responding to my earlier
question (the subject line of which was "3/4/5 - Brahms Sonata No. 2").
Or perhaps your thoughts have leaped to the same quintuple as mine did,
but for a different reason.
Regardless, it has been interesting to read that the opinion about
playing this particular quintuple is not unanimous. In fact, of the 4
or 5 explicit answers that were posted, the opinion was close to 50/50.

[If you didn't read my original question, I want to write seven
notes in triplet rhythm without filling a final triplet with two rests
in order to get back on the beat. How to do this? I thought of Brahms'
quintuplet as an example of simply squashing the printed notes in order
to stay on the printed beat, but the performer would perhaps feel free
to play the seven notes as 6+1.]
I'm ashamed to admit that I ended up writing the seventh note as a
full beat rather than as 1/3 of a beat, thereby ducking the problem.

Cheers,
Bill

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