Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2009/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Schumann Fantasiestucke
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:02:20 -0400

Karl Krelove wrote:
> 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?

Whoops, sorry for mixing up the movements. I'll have to do a proper
search for my copy (or get a new one...) and take a look. This sounds
interesting...

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