Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2006/06

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Bar 111 in K361 again
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:37:07 -0400

I was looking at the holograph again, and a question struck me belatedly --
and perhaps Dan's Jahrbuch article (which I should go to the library to read
in detail, but perhaps he'll tell me) answers it -- if we take seriously WHAT
IS ON THE PAGE, why don't we elide that bar leading into the middle section?
After all, that's what's written.

In that context, I can imagine an argument saying that a possible reason the
'seconda volta' slur is smudged is that Mozart wrote it to indicate what he
wanted in the coda was for the bar to be elided; but then, he suddenly
thought, "that might make them think it should be elided THE FIRST TIME!" and
smudged it -- but then he thought, no, they'll understand...

Notice that it's a musical rather than a textual judgement that makes us
reject that first time elision.

And....I'm not so sure....;-)

Tony
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