Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2006/01

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Gran Partita (K. 361)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:49:29 -0500

The season is upon us (that is the season of Mozart's 250th
birthday), and I have the great fortune to be performing Mozart's
"Gran Partita" K. 361 (370a) on January 27 at The Longy School of
Music's Pickman Hall as part of a fund-raiser for the Boston Woodwind
Society.

With that in mind I have some questions for the master, Mr. Leeson
(and anyone else with knowledge to impart). I have, of course,
purchased and studied the Barenreiter score of the Neuen
Mozart-Ausgabe edited by Herr Leeson and what a great resource it is!

My questions regard the Eingangs, improvisation, articulation and trills...

Happy New Year!

--Jonathan Cohler

First movement (Largo; Molto allegro)

1. The hold on the dominant 7th at measure 14. Should clarinet 1 do
an improvised eingang? If not, why not?

2. The hold on the dominant 7th at measure 222. Should clarinet 1 do
an improvised eingang? If not, why not?

Second and Fourth movements (Menuetto)

3. Should the melodic instruments (mostly Cl 1 and Ob 1) improvise
and ornament on the repeated sections? If not, why not?

Fifth Movement (Romance)

4. Are measures 16 and 103 eingangs, even though there is no 7th in
the dominant chord? And if so, do they have to be played as notated
(was this notated by Mozart?) or should they be improvised as usual?

5. Does the eingang at measure 87 have to be played as notated or
should it be improvised as usual?

Sixth Movement (Tema con variazioni)

6. What is your feeling on modifying the articulation for example in
a repeated passage such as mm. 25 and 26 in the first clarinet part?

Seventh Movement (Finale)

7. What about ornamentation/improvisation on the short repeated sections?

Trills in general

8. Should they all be done from the top? What are the exceptions?

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