Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2005/12

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Dan's observation about double dots in K.622
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:54:16 -0500

An _image_ of a page from Breitkopf & Hartel's edition of Beethoven
"Battle Symphony" has triple dots directly below (because the stems
happen to be up) a couple of noteheads in the trumpet part. If you
add up the note values, the triple dots have function analogous to the
double dot construction that Dan noticed in K.622.

On other pages, which are not actual images, the bassoon and some string
parts use this same construction in several measures.

I mention this only because the first performance of Battle Symphony was
in 1813. So apparently the "multiple dot" notation above (or below) a
notehead was still in use several decades after K.622. (The edition at
which I'm looking is modern, but it claims that the image was taken from
Breitkopf's 1813 edition).

This adds one more reinforcement to what Dan noticed. I still find it
amazing that nobody noticed this for a couple of centuries.

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