Klarinet Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2006/05

From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Grand Duo
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:28:35 -0400

On 5/3/06, Lori Musicant <lmusicant@-----.com> wrote:

> I have been using Tony Pay's computerized Urtext version for the last few
> weeks- found it on a search on woodwind.org as I was silly enough to
> purchase the Carl Fischer edition and anyone who owns that knows it is
> impossible to read. With the exception of one or two note errors, which =
are
> easy enough to correct, I found that starting with a clean slate has been
> much easier.

I'm glad you found it useful, Lori.

> And I've learned a few things, too, by copying in the markings which Pame=
la
> Weston believes are Weber's.

No, no no!!

They aren't what Pamela Weston believes are Weber's. We have what
actually ARE Weber's in what I posted.

We also have an edition by Carl Baermann, which represents what Carl
remembered of what his dad did, plus (probably) his own ideas.=20
Clearly this is worth looking at, because what Heinrich Baermann
thought -- even what Carl Baermann thought -- should be considered,
even if in the end you want to discard it. That's because they
indicate something of the 'sort of thing' Weber's performers did.

What Pamela Weston puts in is rather what SHE thinks we ought to do.

But, who cares what she thinks? She writes good books about clarinet
players, but....she's not a player, she understands very little of the
style....

Her annotations are greatly damaging, in my opinion. I've written
about it here before, and you can find it in the archives.

Tony

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