Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 2005/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] K388
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:57:49 -0500

On 1 Feb, "colin.touchin@-----.com> wrote:

> ...The Camden score does give I.32 Clt 2 written Ab half-note to G written
> half, tied to same whole note in 33. As all other parts hold two whole
> notes in the previous two-bar phrase, I find this one-part-only one-note
> drop unconvincing, just as Dan points to the logic of all parts moving by
> step in the 3rd movement query I raised.

Well, 'all parts moving by step' is hardly a knock-down argument in this
case. What the second clarinet movement to G (sounding F) does in this case
is to present the two chords based around the tritone D#/A, namely B7 and F7,
simultaneously and dissonantly. (The progression without that is an
uncomplicated example of what jazz musicians call 'tritone substitution'.)
And I'd say the tension created by presenting the two chords together is very
effective, whoever wrote it. That's a much deeper sort of 'convincing'.

> The Camden score is by Andrew Skirrow. He alters Ob 1 I.170 to read
> whole-note instead of more likely half-note, too...

I can find a musical justification for this, and even see why Skirrow wrote
it, if he did; though, like the previous example, I don't think it should be
presented in a scholarly edition without evidence that *Mozart* wrote it.

> ....and seems inconsistent in editorially advised or presumed slurring and
> articulations, differing often from Baerenreiter, claiming authenticity.
> In the printed brief intro. it states "The works in this series were
> prepared from the composer's manuscript and have been edited only very
> slightly. ... Where there is any doubt, the marks (or lack of them) have
> been left exactly as in the manuscript and it is left to the performers to
> do as they see fit."

Obviously, that's not good enough if he's altered what is in the manuscript
as radically as the two examples above. But neither I nor you have the MS in
front of us, and Dan doesn't have his.

Where can we get it, Dan? Is there more than one source?

> Incidentally, Dan, I regret to report what looks like another typo in the
> Baerenreiter score, again Clt 1, I.178 4th eighth note - A not G.

Yup.

Tony
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