Klarinet Archive - Posting 000420.txt from 2004/09

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Spohr's first concerto
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:06:25 -0400

On 23 Sep, "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:

> I have a question about the first concerto of Spohr: In he first part.
> Between letter E and F, after the triplets, he has a passage in 16th notes,
> in th first four bars of which every second note is a c. My question refers
> to the fifth bar of this passage, bar 175 to be exact. Here Spohr wrote
> a-f-a-c f-c-f-a. I wonder whether this last c shouln't be also an a, as
> in the next two runs he also writes an a, which in my feeling is much more
> logically.

But then there's too much third in the chord at that point. Certainly the
melody we're accompanying has a concert G at the top, and an Eb at the
bottom. I can't remember, and don't have a score to hand, whether there's a
Bb *at all* at that point in the orchestra -- the piano reduction is just Eb
and G -- but if not, we definitely need our written C, sounding Bb.

Actually, I've always liked this whole passage; and I think that's partly
because all the arpeggiated chords are 'complete' -- so, sorry, I much prefer
the C.

Tony
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