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Author: Clarinetcola
Date: 2012-05-20 08:42
Hi Board!
For my honours dissertation I am doing a Schenkerian analysis of Saint Saëns' clarinet sonata (hopefully just the first movement). I'm looking for existing literature and depth analyses of the work. but nothing much has turned up beyond one or two descriptive sentences about it (e.g. "a tender, flowing melody tinged with autumnal sadness"(Stephen Studd)
The only thing that has come close is an article in The Double Reed on the SS oboe sonata.
Ratner has a good catalog of SS's works and has a few trivial correspondences of SS and Durand about editing the parts (according to my limited french). I'm still looking for letters or writings of him deciding to write the set of woodwind sonatas.
Also I've looked through The Clarinet master index & CASS back issues to no avail.
Any links or ideas of an article somewhere are most welcome!
Nathan
(brisbane, australia)
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P.S.: I thought I'd share some of my preliminary observations...beyond naming sections and keys,
first movement - turn motive and falling third surface motive. Obviously not as developed as elaborately as Brahms' turn motive in his sonata, but understandably so as he was more focused on purity of lines, linearity, moderation and precision etc etc., defending french trad. in his late neoclassical style.
All movements start with some sort of sequence... yup.
the bridge (b.23) uses the turn motive. later in coda (b.75) it's replaced by the tonic.
the F-Eb repeats (b.25 & 74) does not coincide with the chords in the piano, which i thought was kinda cool. (just an elaboration of tonic with displaced neighbour notes, also extension of the turn motive)
Nathan
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-05-21 11:50
You might take a look at Camille Saint-Saëns's memoirs, "Musical Memories," translated from French by Edwin Gile Rich. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1919. It's in the public domain and available free of charge online, as eBook #16459 (released August 7, 2005) on the Gutenberg Project site.
http://www.gutenberg.org
I'm not sure anything in the book would further a Schenkerian analysis, but the composer does offer some thoughtful comments about the use of the clarinet.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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