Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2009/03

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Schumann Fantasiestucke
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:29:09 -0400

I was asking about the second piece. There are 2s against 3s all over =
the Fantasiestucke, none of them especially noteworthy. Schumann uses =
arpeggiated triplets as accompaniment throughout the 3 pieces, whether =
or not the melody is duple. In the two measures you cite (if I have the =
right ones) there's even the added complexity of ascending duple =
arpeggios against descending ones between the clarinet and the piano rh, =
all against ascending triplets in the lh. But the context and aural =
result are completely different in the first section of the Lebhaft =
(piece - movement - 2), mostly because of the sequential (not =
concurrent) juxtaposition of triplets in the piano and duplets in the =
clarinet in what are otherwise completely imitative passages.

Maybe it's somehow meant to be an image of Robert and Clara gamboling =
somewhere and one of them limps?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:22 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Schumann Fantasiestucke
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> Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> > I don't have my copy to hand :-( But could look up the sample page
> on
> > the Henle website. I do remember some aspects of this
> triplets/duplets
> > issue from playing these pieces with a friend.
>=20
> ... having discovered that the nice Henle people give you the first 2
> pages of the 1st movement instead of just the 1st ...
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> From bb. 31-35 it seems clear to me that you do have a clash between
> the
> duplets in the RH of the piano (matching the clarinet) and the =
triplets
> in the LH, and those don't look difficult to play.
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