Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2007/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stravinsky's "Three Pieces" (was: [kl] Kell)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:44:14 -0500

On 9 Mar, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:

> 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.

The Mazzeo articles, at:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1996/03/000527.txt

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1996/03/000529.txt

...give Stravinsky's take, according to Mazzeo, on 'sombrer le son', among
other things.

BTW, I hope your:

> which many people seem to assume is an instruction to "darken the
> sound".

...doesn't result in more fog about 'the permissable usages of language'
invading this thread.

There is no 1-1 mapping of language to the world -- nor indeed is there a 1-1
mapping of any perceptual pattern to the world. Get over it.

Tony
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