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Re: Dvorak 9 question

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2018-05-22 23:43

>> Your stated reasons for playing the Dvorak bit on Bb are all pragmatic, instrument-based choices, the same type of choices which might influence one to play the slow mvt of Shostakovich 5 on Bb clarinet instead of A, the Strauss Oboe Concerto on A clarinet instead of Bb, the Francaix Concerto on A instead of Bb. >>

I realise that I never answered this bit.

There are ARGUMENTS in favour of playing this bit on the Bb clarinet, just as there are ARGUMENTS in favour of playing the Beethoven violin concerto on the A clarinet.

But those arguments don't DETERMINE what we do.

That's why I've said several times here, that what you do constitutes your personal choice in a complicated situation. I choose to prefer the C clarinet, against my personal convenience, in the Beethoven, partly because I am influenced by other arguments.

And, I don't choose to play the Dvorak on the Bb clarinet BECAUSE it fits with what I find convenient, musically.

I choose to play it that way because Dvorak wrote it that way, and NOTICE that it is convenient.

Finally, I'd say that, from what I can tell, you have a simplistic view of what CHOICE is.

Choice transcends reasons. You don't CHOOSE something because of a reason.

You rather choose it because you choose it, within the cloud of reasons.

>> I realize this is anathema to you, but we agree

>>

I hope that explains why we do... and we don't.

Tony

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