Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2008/05

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] fibonacci
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:02:22 -0400

Lelia

when you get older it becomes harder to estimate ones age: is that tumbler
three or four years old? or is that beautiful young woman 20 or 25?

It is the same with estimating the level of difficulty once you become more
proficient on your instrument. One of my pupils wants to take her B-level
examination, and among the pieces I suggested to her were the Donizetti
etude and the first part of Andriessen's Rococo concerto. These however are
C-level, according to those who set examination standards.

BTW, this girl actually achieved already a high playing level, and she will
be able to pass the test with these pieces and the other pieces she will
have to play, it is with "theoretical" items she still has problems, lik
being able to differentiate a mayor from a minor third or sixth, or telling
wether a certain played minor scale is harmonic or melodic.

What this intro has to do with the list? Not very much. But I promised you
to tell you how I experienced your "Fibonacci".

It was even easier than I thought! I played it prima vista, and thought it
an easy knacker.

Then I gave it to the girl I mentioned above, and she played it nearly
faultlessly at first sight. On clarinet, I admit that is true, but I think
that means its difficulty is much less than you estimated. You wrote that
you thought it was on professional level, because of the alto register, but
even a mediocre amateur nowadays can play those notes, at least as high up
as the f, f-sharp and g in this register, four ledger lines above the
stave.

Rien

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