Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2005/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:05:40 -0500

On the contrary, Joe, you are quite right. The only thing I can
add is that the purpose of each of those two clichés is quite
different. A Cadenza is presented to eliminate the stress caused
by having a tonic chord in the second inversion stuck in your
nose. That is a very unstable chord when the 5th is in the bass.
Such a chord must be resolved and that is what the Cadenza does,
though it does it by invention using many of the themes that have
been presented. So its technical purpose is one of resolving an
unstable situtation, and to do so imaginately, ending up on a
dominant 7th that resolves the instability. The Eingang, is
short, heard on a dominant 7th chord, and permits a brief
improvisation of no more than a dozen notes that lead to the 2nd
or the 7th of the scale, which is perfect to resolve the
unresolved 7th chord and takes the audience to the tonic.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:49 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Klocker

Perhaps a point of clarification is in order here.

I don't think Dan is saying that it is inappropriate that players
insert
an improvised solo into Mozart's concerto at the various fermata
points. On the contrary, it is *entirely* appropriate that
players do so.

What is rather the case is that contrary to the modern usage, in
the
Classical period composers and musicians distinguished different
types
of improvisation based on their position in the harmonic
structure.
"Cadenza" is only one such given improvisation while "eingang" is
another, and it's eingangs that are to be found in the Mozart
concerto.

In modern times we are used to thinking of "cadenza" as meaning
any
unaccompanied solo by the soloist in a concerto, hence the
bewilderment
some people seem to be having at being told there are "no
cadenzas in
the Mozart concerto". But in fact this is just a conflict
between our
modern use of the term and the (more restrictive) classical
meaning..

Correct me if I'm wrong, Dan ... ? ;-)

-- Joe

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