Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 2005/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:06:34 -0500

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:12:56 -0800, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
wrote:

>At 12:22 PM 1/10/2005 -0800, dnleeson wrote:
>
>
>>>True. I may have overstated the case. But that still does not
>>>change the fact that 622 has no cadenzas even if my answer why
>>>not is unstable.
>>
>>
>
>Do you have any other thoughts as to why 622 does not contain a cadenza?
>
>

In my uneducated opinion, a cadenza interrupts the flow of the music.
Here you are, cooking along, making great music at a fine rate, and you
are suddenly forced to slam on the brakes and come to a squealing halt
on an artificial sequence leading to a chord that doesn't really belong,
just so the soloist has another chance to show off.

The Mozart K.314 oboe concerto is a prime example. It is a beautiful
piece of music. I find myself getting carried along by the interplay,
like a ride in a horse-drawn cab on a beautiful spring day, when
suddenly the cabbie pulls over to the side of the road, stops, gets out,
and light up a cigarette. It's like inserting a beer commercial in the
middle of Dances With Wolves.

Have I exceeded my metaphor quota yet?

K.622 flows naturally without any such artificial stoppages. It is pure
fantasy to speculate, of course, but perhaps Wolfgang simply felt that
the structure would be lessened by the addition of a cadenza sequence.

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

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