Klarinet Archive - Posting 000963.txt from 2001/02

From: Ann H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]... important is the minuet, anyway?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:14:50 -0500

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 09:16:35 -0800 Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
writes:
snip
>
> Anyway, I really got my head shaped at this conference because there
> was a four hour session on the matter of the minuet as a dance
[big snip]

> I was listening to Osborne's performance of this movement
> of K. 581 on MP/3 and was delighted to hear
> the many inventive ways he used to continually re-present
> the same basic material in the minuet movement.

Very interesting. I expect this to be very useful
information (as is usual with your contributions, Daniel).

Because of the earlier discussions on this list of repeats and
improvisations, I have begun adding a few simple ornaments and frills on
repeats.

It is just plain fun, and helps the aliveness in the music.

Had a background music gig with trio this week. First I "filled" on the
bass line in Handel Air from Water Music.
Then "22 masterworks for woodwind trio" arr. OJ James with classical
minuets of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, I started the practice, and we began
without discussion to alternate who got to add-on.
This was very enjoyable with *musical* players.

For the people who say they are not capable or talented this way, I
started small, adding a beat or two of "codetta" when practicing scales
and arpeggios.

Ann Satterfield
(who is focusing on things that worked because i got talked into joining
a choral performance of a piece of music that is way over the level of
the group--and i can't find all the entrances either.)
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