Klarinet Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 2006/05

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl]Performance & notation queries - Webers Duo Concertant - help please
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:33:06 -0400

Your teacher is CORRECT and it IS common performance practice to play it
that way !

Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Clarinet Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorraine" <lorraine@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:29 AM
Subject: RE: [kl]Performance & notation queries - Webers Duo Concertant -
help please

> Hi, I am performing Weber's Duo Concertant for my final recital. The
> examiners, not being woodwind experts are a stickler for the score and as
> such anything different from what written has to be justified with a good
> reason or I could lose marks.
>
> I am using the Boosey & Hawkes edition - definitely not the best I know as
> seems to be littered with inconsistancies and mistakes.
>
> One such section I am querying is in the 3rd movement, bar 79 - 80. The
> groups of semiquavers are notated rythmically different to the previous
> groups of six semi-quavers. i.e. the first semi-quaver (sixteenth note)
> is
> dotted, with the second being a demi-semi quaver. My teacher has said to
> play them straight as all others as he believes it is an editorial
> difference, not what Weber would have written, but it is not enough of a
> reason to say I am playing them straight 'because my teacher said so'. I
> would like to be able to justify this by giving a reason. If it is common
> performance practice to play them straight then this would be something I
> could write.
>
> I am sure there are many experienced performers out there who could advise
> me on this.
>
> Another bar in question is bar 182 - it is notated quaver four
> semi-quavers
> and dotted crotchet. Where this appears else where it is usually notated
> four semiquavers quaver and then dotted crotchet. I have listened to some
> recordings and am pretty sure most play it as the latter rhythm not the
> former. Is this another editorial alteration?
>
> There are also some strange notes in the piano which don't really make
> harmonic sense and my accompanist has also asked if I could check these.
>
> Again 3rd Movement, bar 178 last note - should it be an A natural instead
> of
> an A flat as written? In bars 194 and 198 the last semiquaver in the
> first
> is an F in the second is a G, we are assuming this is a mistake as why
> would
> this change when the rest of the notation for both clarinet and piano is
> the
> same.
>
> Hoping this makes sense and someone can enlighten me. With many thanks,
> for
> your help,
>
> Lorraine
>
>
>
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