Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2005/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:55:05 -0500

I suspect that there are two reasons why the Eingang is shorter
(though from time to time, I've heard some lasting 30 seconds or
more). The first is that resolution of a dominant 7th to the
tonic is the simpler of the two acts. Thus, there isn't very much
you can do when someone hands you a dominant 7th. The resolution
of a tonic in the second inversion is a more complex act to
accomplish with elegance. But the second reason lies in the fact
that because the resolution of the tonic in the 2nd inversion is
more complex, it takes longer and, more important, gives rise to
lots of opportunities to improvise imaginately because of its
length.

Remember, the purpose of the cadenza was to show how effectively
you could combine the various tunes of the movement into an
imaginative display, all while working your way out of the mess
that the 5th in the bass gave you, and that takes time. Look at
any Mozart cadenza and how he takes this fragment from here and
that fragment from there and he spins a web that is leading him
to the dominant 7th trill that will get out of the mess that was
made by playing a tonic chord in its 2nd inversion. That is SUCH
an unstable chord that it allows for a variety of resolutions,
the very thing called for in a Cadenza; i.e., there are so many
ways to get there from here.

And one of the reasons why 622 does not have a cadenza is
because, unlike the piano and violin, it's hard to make
interesting harmonies on a clarinet (though today with what a
clarinetist can do with harmonics, that would be an interesting
challenge).

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:43 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Klocker

Interesting. Is there a particular reason why the Eingang is
shorter?
Is it simply because the distance to travel in harmonic space is
less or
is there any other reason?

dnleeson wrote:

>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
>
>

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