Klarinet Archive - Posting 000813.txt from 2003/02
From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] The C-T manuscript at UCSC Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:36:49 -0500
See, Elizabeth? Tony doesn't hate you, either!
Hee hee hee
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From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] The C-T manuscript at UCSC
> It gets better (or worse, if you're Elizabeth;-) as Mark continues:
>
> > I've now had time to look more closely at these things, and while I
> > suppose I haven't the expertise to say with authority whether they're
> > the real thing or photocopies, nevertheless--a drop of water applied
> > to an inconsequential streak of "ink" caused no smearing at all; I've
> > found no raised spots where the ink looks heavy, and absolutely no
> > bleeding through to the back sides, which are all blank; and most
> > significantly, occasional pages with the tell-tale straight line
> > running horizontally across about an inch down from the top, with that
> > top inch of paper blank and "whiter" than it is just below the line,
> > and similar I've-been-copied signs. My amateur opinion is that I'm
> > pretty damn sure that they are photocopies. I also would guess that
> > they were made by or for C-T, because the title pages (which are
> > otherwise blank) say "Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco SONATA for CLARINET
> > and PIANO OP. 128 (the clarinet part also has "Clarinet Part"), and
> > this is in the same handwriting but in a blue ink that does indeed
> > look very much like the real thing (the music is all in "black ink").
> >
> > This is undoubtedly more information than you bargained for, but now
> > that you've got me started, I can't stop (besides, I know Danny Leeson
> > loves this stuff!). The whole thing has an aged look to it, with some
> > fraying and foxing in evidence, and is begining to be a little
> > fragile, but is sturdy enough to perform from if handled with care.
> > The clarinet part is on a single, continuous, sheet of paper 35.5 cm
> > high, with music on one side only, accordion folded into 18 pages 25.5
> > cm wide. The piano part is in three long sheets (also with music on
> > one side only) taped together to make one very long sheet, 33 cm high
> > and accordion folded into 59 pages 23.5 cm wide. Both appear to be in
> > the same handwriting with the same pen, on paper that is white (now
> > somewhat yellowed). And while I don't know C-T's handwriting, the
> > piano part is signed "Mario Feb. 13. 1944" at the end of the first
> > movement; "Mario- June 11, 1945" at the end of the second movement;
> > "Mario June 19, 1945" at the end of the third movement; and "Mario
> > Beverly Hills, Calif. Jan 14. 1946" at the end of the fourth movement.
> > Both the piano and the clarinet parts have 12 staves per page. There
> > are occasional pencil marks on both parts indicating that they have
> > been used for performance or at least reading.
> >
> > I'm still taking requests--any more questions?
>
> Well, do we?
>
> The signatures seem conclusive authentication that it's C-T's writing,
> I'd say.
>
> As an aside, the 'continuous sheet' bit is intriguing, because I don't
> think I've ever seen anything like that. We concertina-fold sheets
> stuck together with tape nowadays, but a very long photocopy is a new
> one on me. Anyone else?
>
> Tony
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