Klarinet Archive - Posting 000125.txt from 2005/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:19:07 -0500

OnSat, 8 Jan 2005 19:00:28 -0800, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

>My statement was simply that its hard for a clarinet to play a
>cadenza because it can't create harmonies with itself as can a
>piano or violin. I was trying to give a reason why Mozart did
>not include a cadenza. In fact I'm not sure if he ever wrote a
>cadenza for any instrument that could not produce a harmony with
>itself. There is no cadenza for the bassoon concerto, or the
>flute concerti. I'm not sure about the horn concerti.
>

The K.314 oboe concerto certainly contains several cadenzas, each
preceded by a whoa-Nelly ritard and a 2nd inversion tonic chord.

I don't think an oboe can produce a harmony with itself, although two
oboes can certainly do so, even when they are playing the same note.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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