Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2006/01

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:42:57 -0500

Actually, the plural of Eingang (a as in gutter) is Eingänge (also spelled
Eingaenge, pronounced ayn-gang-eh with a as in ghetto)

Best,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:45 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Gran Partitttta (K. 361)

> 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.
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> 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
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> -----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)
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> Sorry for the stupid question, but WRT to the earlier discussions
> in
> this thread :
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> What the heck is an eingang?
> --
> Curtis Bennett
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