Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2007/11

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Original Ragtime Piano Pieces Arranged for Band
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:53:25 -0500

In support of your statement about the lack of variety in Vivaldi concerti,
there was a wonderful comment that said, "Vivaldi did not write 127 concerti
for violin. What he did was write one concert for violin 127 times."

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:11 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Original Ragtime Piano Pieces Arranged for Band

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:44:57 -0800, "Daniel Leeson"
<dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> The arrangements are impressive. And one can be made to understand how
this
> kind of music must have knocked the socks off of musical America at that
> time, so head and shoulders were they above the pap of waltzes, polkas,
and
> schottisches that were played as incidental music at band concerts of the
> era.

Yes, I agree. What I find so very impressive about rags is that,
despite the very strict construction formula that rags follow, one finds
such an incredible variety of combinations and expressions of emotion.
I have the collected works of Joplin sitting on piano at all times. As
I play through them, it's clear that these are all the same genre of
music, but it's also clear that each piece has a unique personality.

Indeed, I would go out on a limb to assert that there is more variety in
the 70 or so rags of Scott Joplin then there is in the billion or so
concerti of Vivaldi.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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