Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2011/07

From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Malcolm Arnold, Three Shanties, tempo question
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:15:01 -0400

My copy (Paterson edition - Carl Fischer) has quarter note = quarter note.

But at point G the time becomes CUT time. So we would expect that
the quarter note will become twice as fast, (or half as long,
whichever way you want to look at it). In order for the quarter note
to remain the same length and to remain in cut time, we have to halve
the TEMPO, that is, beat your foot twice as slow. Indeed, Youtube a
performance of this work and you will see that at G the tempo slows
to half, the notes are read in cut time, and the quarter notes have
the same length. Its like dividing by two (cut time) and multiplying
by two (slow tempo). The quarter note duration doesn't change- i.e.,
"quarter note = quarter note".

Fred

At 02:02 PM 6/15/2011, you wrote:
>Hello everyone. I have a question about Malcolm Arnold's Three Shanties
>for woodwind quintet, first movement, rehearsal letter G in the
>Paterson's Publication edition: does the tempo marking read "quarter
>note = quarter note", or should it be "quarter note = half note"? The
>printing on my part is unclear about this.
>
>
>
>If in fact it should be "quarter note = half note", what, then, does
>that mean? Does it mean that the old quarter note duration is the same
>as the new half note duration, or does it mean that the new quarter note
>duration is the same as the old half note duration? Is there a
>convention for this sort of thing?
>
>
>
>Thanks for your help. ---Richard
>
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