Klarinet Archive - Posting 000104.txt from 2001/09

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] terminology
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:47:03 -0400

--- Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:

> In recent mailings I have seen several times the word "eingang". What does
> it mean?

In conventional spoken high German, it literally means "entrance." In music, it's
known as a brief improvisatory passage, usually over a dominant 7th chord, serving
as a lead-in to a new section of a work, typically the return of the main theme in
a Classical rondo. It's interesting to color the musical definition with the ling-
uistic one, which lends the latter the transitional character it is meant to have.
Some players make the mistake of turning an eingang into a separate interlude, a
section in itself, a.k.a. a cadenza, which Dan has already addressed as being in-
correct in the context of an eingang.

Neil

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