Klarinet Archive - Posting 000141.txt from 2002/10

From: Glen Shannon <gshannon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] baroque ornamentation; was: Dover Scores
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:15:40 -0400

Common sense? In the historical-instrument world we spend countless
hours learning and internalizing (and bemoaning) composers'
idiosyncratic ornament notation systems, and people earn advanced
degrees by studying them. Of course, the fact that you're using
modern instruments in the first place might obviate the required use
of the authentic ornaments, but just because you're playing a
relatively young instrument doesn't mean the world didn't exist
beforehand, or that it should be completely ignored.

just my 2c
Glen

At 6:00 PM -0400 10/3/02, LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:
>I think that modern clarinet students
>have enough common sense to balk at learning a baroque composer's
>idiosyncratic ornament notation system to play just one transcription
>(although I think it's a shame that Couperin's system didn't catch on and
>become the standard).

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