Klarinet Archive - Posting 000440.txt from 2004/04

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Checking the clarinet part with the piano score
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:39:50 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

<<
> You mean that some people play it slower than written? I have to say that
> I see nothing wrong myself with 'Andantino, crotchet = 69'.

Well, I'm an idiot then, aren't I? Do you know, I've never even *read* what
it actually says, as you can see from above. I've just always assumed it
meant 'quaver = 69' without even thinking about it.
>>

Well, it seems at first sight an odd marking since the time signature is
3/8, which would normally demand a metronome mark either of quaver or
*dotted* crotchet.... ;-)

But there are two things in particular that make me think it should be a
quaver, not a crotchet.

(i) it makes a better "metric modulation" to the fast 5/8 which is one bar =
69.

(ii) there's a point late in the second movement where the opening theme
recurs, transposed, with the notes having "whole bar" lengths. At the 5/8
tempo this is "note = 69", which is the same speed as the opening *if we
take the opening tempo to be quaver = 69*.

However I'm willing to be persuaded that this is me just thinking I "know
better than the composer what he wanted". ;-)

-- Joe

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