Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:14:22 -0500

I don't know the answer to your question: "What about the many
clear cases of compsoers rearranging pieces themselves?"

OK, then. What about them?

Does that mean that if Hindemith authorized something to be done
on his bassoon sonata, that justifies you or me or my uncle max
using an accordion in a Mozart piano sonata under the assertion
that "If he had an accordion, he would have used one." That's
chancy history.

Are there no limitations to the arbitrary alteration of someone
else's work? Can I draw a moustache on the Venus di Milo because
it looks good to me? Why not? Da Vinci put moustaches on his
paintings of men.

Peter, I expect much better hypotheses and arguments from you.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Stoll [mailto:peterstoll2000@-----.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:22 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] composer's intentions

What about the many clear cases of composers
rearranging pieces themselves?:

-Hindemith personally authorizing transcription of the
Bassoon Sonata for bass clarinet
-Prokofiev rearranging the Flute Sonata for violin
-Khatchaturian authorizing transcribing the Violin
Concerto for flute? (according to Rampal's liner
notes)

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Peter Stoll

University of Toronto
Royal Conservatory of Music
RCM College of Examiners
Toronto Philharmonia
ERGO ensemble
Talisker Players

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