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Author: sab15
Date: 2009-12-28 03:26
I recently discovered this sonata because I downloaded an album from Itunes for its Reger sonata, and this was on the album also. The first movement - Molto Allegro - is incredibly beautiful to me. I've listened to it over and over. Couple of questions to put out there (specifically for the 1st movement only):
1. Does anyone feel the same way?
2. Is this considered a popular piece of standard repertoire for the clarinet?
3. According to the British system of grading difficulty level from 1 to 8, where might this piece fall into?
4. Where can I get the sheet music for this????!!!!
Thanks all in advance.
Steven
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2009-12-28 06:52
1) The first movement of the Blackwood is one of my favorite movements of anything for clarinet and piano. Absolutely love it.
2) It isn't very well known, nor often performed, in my experience. I heard of it in a thread I started on this board looking for awesome rep that is rarely played.
3) Dunno... I'd put it in the general neighborhood of the Brahmses.
4) I have the sheet music. IIRC, I had it ordered by the local sheet music shop. Don't know if it's available online.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2009-12-28 12:35
Can't answer ANY of your questions but the mention of Easley Blackwood takes me back to my college days in Chicago. This fellow was a (if not still is??) a professor of music theory at the University of Chicago. A friend of mine (not a music major) took a basic music theory course from him at the time (early 80s) and found it one of the most difficult courses she'd ever taken......but loved it. A bit later I heard him on a WFMT broadcasting an interview featuring selections of works that he had written in various "micro tonal" scales (that is, breaking up the octave into more than 12 different parts). Sounded a bit disonant but for the most part pretty straight forward in form.
................Paul Aviles
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Author: Brianj
Date: 2009-12-28 12:57
Luyben Music has it, but it is $40.00 and since I have the music as well, it is for A clarinet if that matters to you. Great modern piece, I recommend it.
SSG Brian Jungen
399th Army Band
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-12-29 04:38
Blackwood still teaches at UofChicago and is well respected in the musical life of the city.
He has written in many different styles over the years, and this work is of a style when he was inspired by Schubert and other 19th century composers.
While Blackwood is a contemporary composer, I would not consider this a contemporary piece because it is modeled after Romantic sonatas and, while well crafted and a work of beauty, does not really make a unique statement that represent the time of its composition.
John Yeh has made an excellent recording of this and other of Blackwood's similar works which is well worth the money.
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