Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2001/03

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Landler of Mozart Ornamented
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:26:29 -0500

Whew - Dan! Cut it out! This is just too sexy for words: men who read
scholarly tomes AND play clarinet ???!!! Any more of you types out there - but
unmarried? Email me fast....

Audrey

Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Here are a few of the things I've been reading.
>
> Wye Jamison Allanbrook, "Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart", 1983, U. of
> Chicago Press
>
> Rebecca Harris-Warrick, "Ballroom Dancing at the Court of Louis XIV,"
> Early Music 14 (1): 41-49, 1989
>
> Wendy Hilton, "Dance of Court and Theater: The French Noble Style
> 1690-1725" 1981, London Dance Books.
>
> Article on the minuet as found in the The New Grove
>
> GEnnaro Magri's "Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing" London
> Books, 1988
>
> Eric McKee, "The Influence of the Functional Minuet in the French Suites
> of J.S. Bach," 1999 Music Analysis 18 (2)
>
> Sarah Rechart, "The Influence of the Eighteenth-Century Social Dance on
> the Viennese Classical Style," 1984, Ph. D. diss., City University of
> New York
>
> Tilden Russell, "Minuet, Scherzando, and Scherzo: The Dance Movement in
> Transition, 1781-1825," 1983, Ph. D. diss., Univ. of North Carolina.
>
> Same author: "The Unconvential Dance Minuet: Choreographies of the
> Menuet d'Exaudet," Acta Musicology 64.
>
> Erik Smith, Mozart Serenades, Divertimento and Dances, 1982. London
> British Broadcast Company. (This one I have to get from London)
>
> Giovanni Gallini, "A Treatise on the Art of Dancing," Facsimile edition,
> Broude Brothers.
>
> Also see the Library of Congress digited dance collection:
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
>
> There are also a pile in German and French if you can handle those.
>
> Anne Bell wrote:
> >
> > It is my understanding that the Minuett has slowed down from its first
> > introduction as a dance like many of the early dances as they became
> > formalized and stylized. I've garnered most of this information from my
> > local early music guru who reads widely and constantly. I did recently buy
> > a book with the steps and instructions for early dances- I'll let you know
> > if it has anything relevant.
> > Best Wishes,
> > Anne
> >
> > At 09:22 AM 2/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
> > >My understanding of tempos is that a Menuett is quite slow - quarter note
> > >equalling anywhere from 100 down to 80. I know that modern practice has
> > >everyone playing faster, but perhaps those of you who dance Menuetts can
> > >tell us what a good tempo is. The Menuetts I've seen danced were in this
> > >tempo, and there is a wonderful recording of the Gran Partitta (notice
> > >corrected spelling, per earlier discussion) with Moyese coaching that has
> > >the first menuett in this tempo. Quite good when done with the kind of
> > >phrasing that tempo requires.
> > >I've always understood a Menuett to be felt in Three, where a Landler would
> > >be in a slow one, in a similar tempo with the emphasis on the First beat (I
> > >know a previous post recommended Three and cited the Brahms f minor sonata
> > >second strain, third movement - I'd like to see you pulse the third beat of
> > >bar three of that strain! - I think the Polonaise/Polacca is the one that
> > >gets the third beat emphasis)
> > >
> > >Sean Osborn, clarinetist - retired, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
> > >http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/4401/
> > >http://www.mp3.com/metopera/
> >
> > *********************************************************************
> > Anne Bell bell@-----.net
> > Bayside HS Orchestra Director
> > ABC Index: http://www.anne-bell.sneezy.org/ MUSIC LINKS!
> > *********************************************************************
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