Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2005/01

From: "Hayden Band Instrument Repair" <haydenmusic@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] I'm Back!
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:09:43 -0500

Hi Group,
I'm back from a 5 year hiatus. Looking forward to talking to everybody
soon.
Aaron
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From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker

>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
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> -----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?
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> 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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