Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2010/02

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Book review
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:40:08 -0500

That is the exact spot, and while many parts of Cosi are spectacular, this
spot represents a new invention by Mozart that would weave its way through
to Richard Strauss.

Dan
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From: "John Gates" <cadenza@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:59 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Book review

> Is this the quartet where they are about to sign the marriage contract?
> While Ferrando and Gugliamo are still the forigners? If it's what I'm
> thinking it is an amazing part as many parts in Cosi are.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 1:27 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Book review
>
> I shall tell you a secret, and if you want to conductor to open his eyes
> in
> astonishment, you can tell him the secret too.
>
> Towards the end of the opera, specifically in scene 16, a quartet begins
> with the four lovers singing. It goes on for a while, and you have no
> idea
> what is about to happen, because nothing like this has ever happened in
> opera before. It is a case of the sublime that is about to fall on your
> head. What generally takes place is that the singers sing to each other,
> and
>
> one in a while to themselves. But then the miracle happens.
>
> At m. 173, a larghetto begins and TIME STOPS!! A canonical quartet is
> introduced, first with Fiordiligi all by herself expressing her innermost
> thoughts, then Ferrando, and then the other two at their places in the
> canon. And for the space of about 30 measures, each character is alone
> with
>
> their thoughts. At the end of the canon, time starts again and things go
> back to where they were.
>
> Now this idea of the stopping of time while the characters tell you -- one
> at a time -- what is on their minds and emotions, was so revelatory, that
> Beethoven took the idea in the first act of Fidelio, specifically in the
> canonical quartet, "Mir is so wunderbar." There, time stops, and each
> character tells the audience what they are feeling at that moment. It is
> absolute magic.
>
> Then Wagner uses the same technique in Meistersinger, the characters being
> Walter, Hans Sachs, Eva, and maybe some others. THEY STOP TIME.
>
> And finally, in Rosenkavalier, the same thing happens, but with only three
> people stopping time: the Marshallin, Octavian, and Sophie.
>
> So the invention of Mozart in Cosi was picked up by Beethoven, then
> Wagner,
> and then Strauss, all of which shows their good taste.
>
> Pay attention to this moment. You won't regret it.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 5:57 AM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Book review
>
>
>> Congrats Dan!
>>
>> Here's a/the link to your Library of Congress presentation about the
>> Partitta....
>>
>> http://www.loc.gov/radioconcerts/programs/past/program6.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel N. Leeson, Gran Partitta. A Book About: Mozart's Serenade in
>> B-flat,
>> K. for 12 Wind Instruments and String Bass, Bloomington, Indiana 2009,
>> 168
>> Seiten, zahlr. Abb. Notenbeispiele (in englischer Sprache).
>>
>> The book is described at: www.leesonbooks.com
>>
>>
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