Klarinet Archive - Posting 000624.txt from 2001/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:30:27 -0500

I'd be curious to know which note is wrong. I have played from the
Barenreiter parts many times and never had a wrong note brought to my
attention. In fact, I've played all four clarinet parts and never found
a wrong note. Help me out and I'll buy you a pizza.

Dan

Lacy Schroeder wrote:
>
> Dan:
>
> I played in a performance of the Mozart in September (Roger, weren't you
> originally going to play in it, too?) and your name was on it (I think as
> editor). I played 2nd clarinet and I think there was a wrong note in
> there... :)
>
> Lacy Schroeder
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:28 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta
>
> "Kevin Fay (LCA)" wrote:
> >
> > In any event, I can't tell - the edition we're using is denoted
> > "Broude Brothers," with no other markings on the part or score. It's >
> probably the cheap one.
>
> Every edition published up to 1979 is a copy of the 1875 B&H edition.
> Broude Brothers is no exception. The really cheap edition is the one
> from Kalmus which is a photocopy of the 1875 edition. It's also
> published by Musica Rara. They are all identical. I am sorry you are
> using that edition, but that is none of my business. And it is
> particularly tragic because you will have no way of knowing that there
> is an issue about getting to the coda in the fifth movement. The bass
> part does not have "col arco" markings so the bassist does not know when
> to stop playing pizzicato. Therhythm's in the horn parts are incorrect
> in at least two places, and there must be 1000 or more phrasing errors.
>
> Now if the conductor is using the Barenreiter edition, your problems
> will be magnified, not diminished because so great are the differences
> between that score and the Broude Brothers parts, that there is almost
> no way to reconcile the two. He or she will ask you to play piano where
> your part says forte, he or she will ask for this or that kind of
> phrasing when your part is quite different. It can't be fixed in
> rehearsal.
> >
> > I will be playing the 4th clarinet part. It "should" be the 2d basset >
> horn part, but neither the 3d player nor I own a basset horn, and this >
> particular gig isn't worth the effort to both scrounge a couple up and >
> learn how to play them in tune. Given who the players are (i.e., me), > and
> what we're getting paid (zero), it will be a more effective
> > performance if we use instruments we're used to. Besides, it wasn't
> > my decision and, as I said, I'm lazy.
>
> Of course it is worth the effort!! How can you make such a statement as
> it not being worth the effort to play the work properly? I can
> understand if you can't get basset horns but it is not a meritorious
> attitude to suggest that it isn't worth the effort to get them.
>
> > Of course the spelling is incorrect. Whoever wielded the red crayon
> > left the "D" off!
> >
>
> That too!!
>
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