Klarinet Archive - Posting 001074.txt from 2001/02

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Landler of Mozart
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:22:42 -0500

My 1 1/2 cents worth (or should that be pence worth)

You all seem to forget - there are slow waltzes and fast waltzes, slow
landlers and fast landlers. Dancers don't seem to care. Just do the tune at
it's traditional or expected tempo. If it is not being played for dancing
then the tempo matters less - just make it pretty. Some Landlers lend
themselves to hanging on to the third beat some do not, some waltzes like to
have a little anticipation on the second beat (a lot of Strauss waltzes) but
who does the anticipation depends upon the role your part plays at any given
section of the composition. I've been playing landlers for 40 years and love
most of them. The clarinet duet opportunities are wonderful so make it so
for the audience also, regardless of whether it is a dance situation or not.
Music is music, an art form where human feelings should play a larger role
than the intellect. Although Landlers did not get extensive coverage in my
graduate studies of European music I am willing to bet the players of early
landlers did not read a note of music and played everything according to the
way they felt it.

GaryT

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