Klarinet Archive - Posting 000174.txt from 2009/10

From: David Thomas <dtclarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] numbers in Jeanjean 2
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:08:59 -0400

Thank you Jim (and James as well) for these helpful hints. I am
looking into both possibilities.

Best,
David Thomas

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Jim Congdon <jcongdon@-----.com> wr=
ote:
> 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 U=
S
> 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 Progressiv=
e
> 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 fro=
m
> 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 edition=
s
> 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=92t 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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