Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Am I confused or just seeing things
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:29:52 -0500

I'm working on a paper that I'll probably submit to The Clarinet
magazine on this matter of the two dots over the high b-flat in
the Winterthur draft of the basset horn concerto in G. To lay
the groundwork for the importance of this Winterthur draft, I
give an image of measures 108 (for context only) and 109, this
latter measure showing a dramatic pitch change from the
traditional version of K. 622 on the sixth note of the measure
and which is played more and more frequently today. It is
clearly an f-natural and not the f-sharp that has been played for
close to two centuries.

In explaining the matter further, I also show the parallel
passages in the clarinet concerto in which that same sequence of
pitches occurs (or are supposed to occur if one presumes that
parallel passages should be identical).

The first one is in the first/second violins and flute at m. 159.
The second one, also for first/second violins and flute occurs at
m. 244.

The problem is with the final one, at least in the Bärenreiter
edition. It occurs at m. 297 in a much lower register for basset
clarinet or as low as is practical on a traditional clarinet.
But there, the sequence of the fifth to sixth notes is only a
half step instead of the full step in the three previous parallel
passages.

That seems awfully strange. I never noticed it before.

Am I confused or did the editor make a decision that I can't
understand.

A possible consideration is that the editor recognized that this
fourth presentation of the passage is not present in the
Winterthur manuscript and, thus, he had no authority to change it
in the clarinet concerto. I suppose that could account for it.

Any ideas???

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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