Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2011/03

From: Joseph Fasel <jhfasel@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] To Baroque o philes
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:05:35 -0400

Kathy,

I like Donnington's "Baroque Music: Style and Performance: A Handbook
": quite thorough, with many source citations (Quantz and lots of
others).

Cheers,
--Joe

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Keith Bowen <keith.bowen@-----.com> wrote:
> JJ Quantz book 'On Playing the Flute' is a good contemporary reference to
> Baroque musical style and ornamentation, and is by no means confined to the
> flute.
>
> Keith Bowen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Williams-DeVries [mailto:kathleenwilliams76@-----.com]
> Sent: 13 March 2011 09:31
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: [kl] To Baroque o philes
>
> Hello everyone
>
>
>
> Earlier in the year, I bought a C clarinet in the hopes of playing Baroque
> oboe and flute works. Well, while I think timbre wise the C clarinet works
> well with the oboe Albinoni, Vivaldi, Telemann et al Concertos, I am not
> convinced on the Flauto traverse (violino) Sonatas. And I in no way a
> Baroque specialist, I have noted a lot of ornamentation in the recordings I
> am listening to which I am yet to grasp, though a reference source would be
> most welcome?
>
>
>
> In this case I am welcoming constructive criticism. I am aware MMO is hardly
> a reliable source, this is me just having fun with MMO in my practice room,
> but if there are ways for me to play the music more in the style it was
> intended without having to learn the flute, recorder or oboe. I am not
> saying these pieces would have been written for clarinet if it had been
> around. I am not saying that at all. In fact I think not. But my getting a C
> clarinet has opened up a path to play this beguiling music which most
> clarinettists would miss out on.
>
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ--HwfzceE
>
>
>
> Tuning problems with the C, but you can see through the video I am working
> with a tuner to sort it out. To be honest, it is not so much tuning problems
> as timbre issues. Certain notes sound stuffy and out of tune but are
> perfectly in tune and the instrument is certainly responding better with my
> new Backun fatboy on it. Thankyou Morrie J
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Kathy Williams-DeVries
>
> BMusPerf (Hons)
>
> Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)
>
> ATCL, LTCL
>
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>
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