Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2003/09

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:44:10 -0400

They're both the same passage (with the first and second clarinet parts
inverted). The notes you've cited are correct (for B-flat clarinet - the
original parts change to clarinet in C at measure 88). The slight and brief
dissonance caused by the C-sharp (concert pitch) as it "rockets" up from the
pedal Cs in the trumpets and the descending passage starting on C in the
bass instruments, I think you'll find if you listen to it from somewhere
outside the orchestra, is really quite mild and resolves very comfortably.
The concert E (F-sharp in your part) in the 1st clarinet part at 301 is not
responsible for the dissonance - unless you're hearing the tritone with the
B-flat in the bass line for half a beat. The overall harmonic motion is from
C7 (I7 becoming V of IV) in the measures you've cited going to F (IV) in the
following ones. The C-sharps are just chromatic passing tones that add
forward drive. No problems.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blake Arrington [mailto:klarinetteman@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:18 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Brahms Academic Festival Overture
>
>
> Dear List,
>
> I am currently playing in an orchestra that is going to perform
> the Academic
> Festival Overture in a few weeks. I have 2 note questions for all of you
> that have performed it, or have marked parts nearby. In measure
> 99 in the
> 1st clarinet part, I have a written D#. Is this correct? I have checked
> the score and it has a written D#, but it still seems to be clashing with
> either the trumpet, or other instruments. The violins also have this D#,
> but I think it might be D natural.
> Question 2 is in measure 301. Clarinet 1 has written F#. Is
> this correct?
> Same problems with this note...it seems to be clashing with other
> instruments, but the score has written F#.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Blake Arrington
>
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