Klarinet Archive - Posting 000388.txt from 2002/02

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Ed Lacy and Partitta
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:56:06 -0500

From: Daniel Leeson

> but the "Partitta" issue is straightforward. Mozart never called it
> that, never used that term, and never wrote a work that was
> in the form of a Partita.
>
> Someone else (no one knows who) wrote "Gran Partitta" on the top center
> of the manuscript, and that person used red crayon. It has nothing to
> do with Mozart and the term should not be used at all since
> 361 in not a Partita in the first place.

Thanks very much for that clarification. I'm sure you must have mentioned
this in the past, but it just escaped my memory.

I'll look forward to any further messages in which you could help me by
elucidating the issue of articulation markings in Mozart, and perhaps other
classical composers.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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