Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2008/09

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] The Poulenc Sonata
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:02:49 -0400

I was lying in bed last night trying to think of when I had seen a thread on
klarinet that was so interesting, comprehensive, and insightful as the
recently concluded one on the Poulenc Sonata. The breadth of the comments
and the dispersal of both the inquiries and responses was simply
breathtaking.

I saw it as an inquiry that could be used as a model for a class studying
the various prolems in historical musicology.

The postings had two distinct phases, which often overlapped. First there
was the evolution of the problem's description, because, like any problem,
the expression of it took several turns to become really clear. Which
editon? Which date? Which player? Which perspective? It was a particularly
insightful phase. Second, was the drive to the various solutions, which I
found equally enlightenting.

I'm very impressed, and somewhat saddened that I could not make a
contribution to that analysis so easily begun by Sean Osborne's deceptively
simple question, and then which turned into a hurricane of creativity.

It was an effort not seen very frequently and everyone who contributed
should is to be congratulated, with special kudos going to Tony Pay.

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

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