Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2006/05

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Grand Duo
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 06:41:00 -0400

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Tony Pay wrote:
> 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.

For comparison, what about Alan Hacker's edition of the Mozart Concerto?
In this he sets out to reconstruct the basset text, but at the same
time provides a revised standard clarinet text that attempts to come
closer to the basset clarinet performance. He also makes extensive
additions to the dynamics, articulations, etc. I can't remember exactly
what his comments were in the introduction but the impression is of a
deliberate attempt to create a "performance score" for young students
who may not have detailed knowledge of classical style, etc. Of course,
he's quite open about the fact that this is deliberately *not* a
scholarly or "as-close-to-Ur-as-it-gets" text.

What are your thoughts?

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