Klarinet Archive - Posting 000164.txt from 2009/10

From: "Jim Congdon" <jcongdon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] numbers in Jeanjean 2
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:59:44 -0400

Hi David,

BTW, I'm strictly a clarinet-playing hobbyist and community band member.
My background is engineering, and I have an engineering business.

I claim no authority about what "may have happened" to the Alfred NY
edition of Jeanjean's 18 Etudes, but here's my guess:

My expectation is that the original 1928 Andrieu Freres edition did have
the numbered footnotes--that are common in the many other Jeanjean books
published by e.g. Leduc.

My guess is that the 1928 Andieu Freres copyright was "canceled" in the US
during the French Vichy period--because of complicity with the Nazis.
Hence the 1940 Alfred NY edition (which I own, and looks like yours) was
sold in the US.

Unlike Jeanjean's other etude books (16 Etudes Moderne; Etudes Progressive
et Melodique I, II, III; Vade Mecum; etc. from Leduc) the footnotes that
explain the similar captions above the staves are absent in the Alfred
edition. My presumption is that Alfred didn't bother to translate 'em from
French, and just sliced them off the old Andieu and sold 'em to US
clarinet students--and has continued to do so.

That's my guess. I expect youmight be able to find an Andieu edition at a
music library that still has the legends.

While I'm at it, THANKS very much for recording the Jeanjean etudes!!!

Recordings of the Leduc ones above would be great too. (The Leduc editions
have footnotes, and while the English isn't always perfect, the French is
clear.)

I see you have another replier besides me. Maybe somebody with the
original Andrieu edition.

Best regards,

Jim

> Hello-
>
> I'm working on Jeanjean 2nd etude from book of 18.
>
> In the second part of the etude, I am baffled by the numbers JJ put
> over certain arpeggios, which you can see in m 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 15,
> etc. I thought he was pointing out different arpeggios to note all
> covered, but then the same arpeggio is marked with a different number
> as in the last line, where there is a 13 over the same arpeggio as 1.
> There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as far as I can tell.
> Does anyone else have a clue?
>
> If you don't have the music, you can see pics of it in my two posts
> about it so far.
>
> http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/woodshedding-jj2/
> http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/practicing-jeanjean-2nd-etude/
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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