Klarinet Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2011/08

From: Mark Thiel <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Mozart quintet repeat
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:50:02 -0400


Dan Leeson writes:
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> . . .

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> The nature of your posting tells me that all of this may be new news to
> you.

No actually it is neither new news nor old news to me. Nor actually did I mean to imply by my posting that I was inclined to either the
a) (repeat unchanged) or b) (jazz chorus) options. I was actually interested in soliciting opinions of everyone including, and especially,
Dan Leeson (which I was fairly certain I would get).

Dan writes:> For example,a
> low note of some duration followed by a high note of some duration often
> mean that the performer was expected to fill in the blank area between the
> low and the high note, perhaps a scale, an arpeggio, or even nothing if
> that
> was what the performer preferred.

Looking at the first 19 measures (I'm looking at 19 measures because even though bars 20-26 are repeated one
would risk a bow up one's nose if one started throwing notes in the bit where it's all about the first fiddle.),
there's not much obvious of that nature. I guess you're talking about places like in the first movement of the
the concerto where the clarinet has 4 whole notes: mid Bb, low C# , high A, low D#. But those 19 measures
stay within one octave,the clarion C-C except for that one low bit in bar 17 (Ab,G, F, E) which sounds like
an embellishment already and doesn't seem to want embellishing. I've never quite gotten that bit -- do
those who own basset clarinets have something more interesting to play there which they are quite sure
is what Mozart really meant?

Dan writes: > There are
> repeats in all four movements, and the third, the minuet, has a special
> case
> that must be dealt with on the two Da Capo sections; i.e., does one repeat
> a
> minuet at either, both, or none of the Da Capo directions?

I'm not sure what you mean here, do you mean that there are those who would not play the menuet 3 times in some form
or is it just the question of whether the internal repeats in the menuet are observed for all 3 occurrences?

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