Klarinet Archive - Posting 000153.txt from 2005/01

From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: Eingang (was Klocker)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:11:04 -0500

Oliver,

A couple of years ago, my Kammermusik workshop had the pleasure of a
masterclass on the Gran Partitta, directed by Dan.
OK it was really an excuse for all the nubile females to swoon at our feet
as we brandished our cocobola and gold basset horns. But one of the many
revelations was precisely this instruction on eingangs. Don't be afraid of
being wrong 1000 times before you get the right feeling. In rehearsal, I
remember Dan bellowing at our first clarinet, after he got it right "That
was brilliant! Now NEVER do that one again!".

By the end of the weekend the whole class was saying things like "well,
such-and-such a recording isn't bad, but they did the SAME EINGANG five
times! And no embellishments! Boring! AND they put in that extra bar ...".

Embellishments/impros changed my view of the classical minuet for ever.

Oh, and you should have heard Dan's embellishments in the Adagio.

It really did add to the thrill and the interest of the performance, and of
all our future listening.

Be bold and just do it! Oh and the other bit of advice Dan gave was "If you
make a mistake don't beat your brow and scowl. Just glare at your stand
partner. So I glared at him a lot ....

Keith Bowen

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:59:21 -0800
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Eingang (was Klocker)
Message-ID: <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPMEBIDBAA.dnleeson@-----.net>

Once the fermata ends, just go step wise in a scale down to the 7th of the
scale, Your last note must reinforce the fact that the NEXT note will be
the tonic.

If it your first efforts take you more than 6 notes, you are doing too much.

Less is more. It is simply a way to lead into the tonic. It is not a
demonstration of how fast you can play.

In the words of Thoreau, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY.

Only when you are very comfortable in doing a 5 or 6 note Eingange about 100
times, should consider becoming more imaginative. Try ending your Eingang on
the 2nd of the same, but the implication should clear in the predecessor
notes that your desitnation is the tonic.

Use the Eingang of K. 581 as a guide, but NEVER play that one.
Study it because it is a good Eingang. Now make up your own.

That will be $3.50 plus a pizza.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:54 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: Eingang (was Klocker)

O.K., but before I make up my own Eingang for a performance scheduled for
January 16, I want to make sure we're talking about the unaccompanied
section of the 2nd movement of K.581 starting at measure 49 (maybe it was
said before, but I haven't been following this thread). I don't know if I
have the nerve to do it, but it'll be something to try and to cause heart
failure among the other players during our two dress rehearsals.

Something in a minor key, perhaps? 8-)

Oliver

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