Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2008/10

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The spelling of the word: (formerly "The Boy Friend")
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:48:21 -0400

Matthew Lloyd suggests that "partitta" was an 18th century typo.

Not so. The spelling of the word ca. 1800 was either "Partitta" or "Partita"
depending on which area of Italy one lived in. Other similar words, such as
"magistratto," "ducatti," "pizzicatto," "depositatti," were all spelled with
the double "t" consonant. Not until Italian had developed a single
standardized dictionary ca. 1875, was the word formalized as "partita."

So whoever wrote the term on the manuscript of the gran Partitta (lower case
g and upper case P, denoting German capitalization rules) did not make a
mistake.
The mistake was made when the first page of the manuscript was seen for the
first time in a 1912 article, at which time it was merely assumed that
whoever wrote "partitta" was a dope. But it is universally true that any
generation always presumes that the previous generation consisted of a bunch
of idiots.

This analysis plus the glorious one I did on "Shep Fields and His Rippling
Rhythm" is without charge. In about a year when my book on the gran
Partitta is out, that will cost money. So read it for free here or pay for
it in the future, at which point the young people of that era will presume
that all of us were a bunch of idiots.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
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From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 9:40 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] The Boy Friend (musical)

> Eighteenth Century Typo, wasn't it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Reyes [mailto:robert.reyes@-----.net]
> Sent: 28 October 2008 04:34
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] The Boy Friend (musical)
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> I ask for forgiveness for asking this, but why is Gran Partitta
> misspelled?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] The Boy Friend (musical)
>
>
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:40:39 -0700, "Dan Leeson"
>> <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
>> > I remember seeing the show, though I never played it. The music as
>> > best
> as
>> > I can recall it, is a lot ricky-ticky stuff, not very far displaced
>> > from
>> > Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm.
>> >
>> > I am pleased to have brought my substantial and magnificent
> musicological
>> > talents so as to shed light on Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm, the
> band
>> > responsible for the cymbal smash (not crash -- that's something else).
>>
>> Well, your musicological contribution inspired me to look into this
>> band, with whose name I was not familiar. In doing so, I have now
>> learned that Sid Caesar was their saxophonist for a time, that Bob Hope
>> was the announcer for their radio show ("The Rippling Rhythm Revue"),
>> and that Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm was the band that premiered
>> "Thanks for the Memory," now and forever associated with Bob Hope. I'm
>> confident this information will win me many bar bets in the future --
>> probably more than I will win from knowing why "Gran Partitta" is
>> misspelled.
>>
>> Wikipedia even brings us this tidbit from the Washington Post:
>>
>> "Los Angeles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles>, January 16,
>> 1939 (United Press <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press>) Mrs.
>> Myra Wallace, wife of a music publisher, learned tonight the $10,000
>> banknote which she tossed to Shep Fields, orchestra leader, for
>> playing one her favorite numbers might be legal -- not stage money
>> as she had thought."
>>
>> --
>> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
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