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Author: 2007gl
Date: 2007-01-09 04:56
anyone have a copy of jean francaix's tema con variazioni? I need to look at it before I order it online but I've yet to find a site that will alow that.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-01-09 14:44
Join the ICA and borrow it from their library.
The Tema con Variazioni is quite difficult, particularly at the end. See http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=116858&t=116853.
My summary of Charles Neidich's master class is at http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=757&t=757 :
This is a very fine piece, and a finger-buster. The interpretive problem is that there is no identifiable "theme" to make variations on. The key is in the dedication, which is to Francaix's nephew Olivier. The piece is held together not by a theme but by a three-note pattern, low, high, middle, corresponding to the syllables of the name Olivier (oh-liv-ier).
Francaix's family was Flemish, not Waloon and spoke Dutch, not French. He prounounced his name frohn-SEX, not frohn-SAY.
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