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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-03-30 21:22
I know very little about Francis Poulenc.
It seems to me that there are many published editions of the clarinet Sonata, and that the most common publishing company to have sold the composition is Chester Music.
I also picked up that Chester has revised their edition many times because their previous ones have been infamous for errors.
I just bought a Chester edition. On the cover, it says:
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata
for clarinet and piano
Revised edition, 2000
Chester Music
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Questions:
-Is this a good reliable copy?
-What are the controversial spots in the music where different editions have different notations?
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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-03-30 21:35
BTW, what's with all those time sig changes in the thrid movement?
as if the piece wasn't already hard enough to count in the first place...
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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-03-31 00:25
How could I have been able to post what I posted had I not searched?
I did do a search. I got a copy of the sonata today and did a search for "Poulenc Sonata", and I was able to find stuff about it.
It was after reading that I came up with questions, and those threads didn't answer it.
My main question was to find out info about the edition I owned. I didn't see anything about the 2000 edition, although I may have missed a lot of things. But don't blame me for not searching though, because I spent half an hour reading all the way back to 2001.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-03-31 01:34
ALOMARvelous12...If you reread the specific thread I referenced you will see that that there is the "older" (1963) Chester edition and the newer version (1973 and subsequent reprints).
The major differences are a matter of 4 notes - 3 in the 1st movement, and one in the final movement.
Without reiterating what I previously wrote 6 months ago, as to why there are differences in the 2 editions, it comes down to which one sounds "right" to you. Often, it is the one you learn first. Many of my colleagues (and myself) learned the 1963 version, so to me it sounds "correct". In a number of the newer recordings, the performers use the newer version.
As both versions correspond to ideas previously written by Poulenc, and since he isn't around to consult, either edition is acceptable. Who is really the authority to say what were Poulenc's final thoughts on the matter?
As the late Jerry Pierce once wrote in a letter to me: "It's all Poulenc - at one time or another"...GBK
Post Edited (2003-03-31 03:39)
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2003-03-31 03:39
>BTW, what's with all those time sig changes in the thrid movement?
>as if the piece wasn't already hard enough to count in the first place...
Once you've played it for a while and heard it performed, it wouldn't make sense any other way. 
-Alex
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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