Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2006/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:47:57 -0500

It means "lead in." It is a rough sort of pickup that is
expected to be improvised by one of the players of the group,
comes at stopping points in a movement, is always introduced by a
dominant 7th chord with fermata.

Any clarinet player in the last half of the 18th and first half
of the 19th centuries grew up with an understanding of what an
Eingang was. It was part of their training. Today, nobody gets
trained in what an Eingang is, and the result is that its purpose
is ill understood, which is a sign of a weak education for the
performer. One is supposed to know what these things are and be
able to react to them. When you see the word "cadenza" you have
a fairly good idea that you will play alone for an uncertain
duration, with the text given to you. But eingange (that's the
plural) are not described by text, only by underlying chord
structure and in the presence of a fermata for music of a
specific period. A dominant 7th with a fermata in Brahms is
unlikely to mean, play an eingang.

Now you owe me several pizzas for this information. And good
ones, too. Not Papa Johns. Send money at once.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Bennett [mailto:curtis.bennett@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:34 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)

Sorry for the stupid question, but WRT to the earlier discussions
in
this thread :

What the heck is an eingang?
--
Curtis Bennett

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