Klarinet Archive - Posting 000834.txt from 2000/11

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rest
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:45:42 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:24:29 -0500, agalper@-----.com said:
>
> > Can someone explain why at the END of the second movement of the
> > Stravinsky 3 pieces, there is a 1/16th rest?
>
> Hi Abe!
>
> I'd always thought it was to make it clear that the previous note had a
> specific length, and I'd always thought that that meant, not too *long*.
>
> I don't know what status you'd accord the following argument, but:
>
> It seems to me that the outer parts of the second movement could be
> thought of as the search for a note to believe in. 'D' is the first
> contender, in the first third of the movement, then 'G', 'F', and 'G'.
> Then 'C', and then 'G'.
>
> When we get back to the search, in the last third of the movement, we
> seem to settle on 'G' -- but only till the last phrase, where
> inexplicably, we settle on the 'E', and then disappear, without so much
> as a 'by your leave'. (She eloped with the gardener.)
>
> I quite like the 'surprises' at the end of all of the movements.
> Interestingly, the MS has the last movement without pause on the throat
> Bb, and a crescendo to the top Bb.
>
> But Stravinsky changed that, so that all three movements end
> unexpectedly.
>
> Tony
> --

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Love your "interpretation"! It really helps to give give the movement a
structure and a direction. But as to the 16th rest, I feel that it not
only
clarifies the length of the last note. It also tells me to hold the
tension
that much longer. The movement isn't at an end at the end of the note
but not
until after the rest. It makes the surprise effect you mention all the
stronger.

The first and last third of the movement describe for me the flight of a
butterfly. The middle is more a frog lurching, though at times, I've
imagined
other animals...

David

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