Hi

I've been told to buy this so I can play the first movement.I've ordered a copy, but I don't know how long it would take to get here, and I'm supposed to have worked on it before my lesson on Tuesday. Could anyone send me the firt movement, just to work on before I get my own, and then I'll destroy it when my own arrives please?

Can you borrow a copy from the university library, or other clarinettists at Hull? (If I sent you my copy it'd probably be Tuesday before you received it anyway!).

I'd scan it you...but I don't have a working laptop and I'm not even sure if I have brought it with me

Thanks anyway, he'll just have to make do! Even if it does come tomorrow, I won't get it coz they don't put post out on Saturdays here

You can download a sample page of the sonata Here. I know it is not really helpfull, but maybe something to get you started

Thanks, that's really useful I can at least have the first page prepared to a reasonable degree and work more when I get mine.

Speaking of post......

Give me a chance!! lol

very busy at the moment-singing at a wedding with rev today and trying to decide what to wear!!

Hope Rev went well!!

We are getting info about Leeds soon!!! Do you realise we'll be meeting each other real soon!!

Rev went really well! Didn't get to bed til 2!

I know we can apply on Tuesday!!!!!! Yeyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

Good good!!

Just looked at that...how is it possible to get to the low D in bar 9? Or is it written at concert pitch?

*confused*

It's written in bass clef and it is what the piano plays!

lol!

I'm never gonna get mine before Tuesday now, I can't practice in my room (long story, but it will help a complaint against noisy person downstairs in the future) and I can't print the online one off coz it won't display on the computer downstairs.

oh dear

I would print it off and then scan it to you but I need to re-install my scanner and I can't do that until Tuesday at the earliest

I guess being played on the piano makes a bit more sense!

Elmo, try Right Click -> Save Target/Link As on this:

http://g.sheetmusicplus.com/Look-Inside/large/3715194_01.jpg

Then you should be able to do whatever you like with it...

Thanks it doesn't matter, it'll just give him an excuse to complain!

He can't complain if you can't get the music!

oh he'll find a reason!

Tell him, I'll come after him then!

lol yeah that'd get him worried

He wasn't too bothered in the end. He said there were bits with weird fingerings and stuff which would be better learned from the start. Don't really like it though!

Oh good on both counts!!

lol But I can see why people like it, if that makes sense?

No! It's yuck!

I particularly like the third movement - it's really good fun! I just wish that I could play it up to speed in the more awkward passages!

Jo

How could you?!

Nat - how could you not!!

1 - because it is just yuck!

2- I can't play it..and I hate everything I can't play

I played through that sample page and loved it, especially from bar 9/10 onwards

No Matt I can see how it can sound nice there! I was trying to think about what the accompaniment sounds like, and if it sounds the same as what I think it does in my head, then I think I could like that bit!

Izz what has happened to you! You can't like Poulenc..it is against my rules!

lol no I can see that there are good patches. I'll never (I don't think) fully like it coz bits are too weird. Like all the jumping around, what's that about?!

No idea

Ah well...I'll accept you liking just a bit

If you want to listen, here's a link of Gary Dranch playing it (found on classiccat.com):

1st Movement:
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=80959

2nd Movement:
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=80961

3rd Movement:
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=80660

Haven't listened to the 2nd, but I have to say I liked the 3rd more than the first. And it sounds so simple!

It's growing on me

Oh noo..just wait unitl I see you in a few weeks and I'll sort you out!!

I've not read through all the previous comments, but have to say that I can't stand the Poulenc!!!! It's just not melodic to me - I much prefer good old Mozart and Weber!

ooooh Weber I like listening to that! That's what I thought about Poulenc, but I'm beginning to see it has *some* melodic bits

Mozart

lol I was waiting for that. I have a question about the Poulenc: In bar 22 there's that fast run, but everytime I play it fast, my B won't sound, but when I play it slower it does. Is it just something which will happen if I keep practicing it, or am I supposed to use alternative fingerings?

B on the break? That is hard to get anyway, maybe you kind of need to change your embouchure slightly? I don't know

lets not start this again!! everyone knows poulenc sonata is amazing! more so that mozart clarinet concerto k.622

POULENC SONATA IS NOT NOT NOT NOT BETTER THAN MOZART'S!

It's a matter of opinion, we could be here for hours!

I managed to do it today, I think I must've been having an off day. (The B over the break bit I mean)

What is you opinion Izz?!

I don't like it much, it's a bit naff in my opinion! It sounds random, but then when you actually look at it, it's the same idea(s) over and over again starting on different notes, in a not-even-clever way.