Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2007/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stravinsky's "Three Pieces" (was: [kl] Kell)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:43:58 -0500

By the way, another little notational detail about these pieces. In the
third movement, in bars 13, 37 and 52, there is the instruction "sombrer
le son subito", which many people seem to assume is an instruction to
"darken the sound".

.... but if you look it up in a dictionary, the French for "darken" is
"assombrir", while "sombrer" means .... to sink, or to lapse or slump.

:-)

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