allow me to clear things up. Strauss wrote it for the D clarinet. Today, we use the Eb clarinet. Modern orchestras that play this usually transpose it for the Eb clarinet. There's no easy way to tell the difference between a D and Eb just by looking at it.
No, sorry to argue. Strauss wrote for D CLARINET. >I checked the score. Some orchestras might use the Eb in a transposed version, but that's cheating. Strauss knew his clarinets, he scored for the D in a lot of his operas. As well as the Eb, the C, the Bb of course, the A, the basset horn in F, the bass and even the contrabass.
Haha I know! it's like... poor little till got pillaged by the judge... then , wait no, he's back! look sun, tills in the window for more nasty deeds!! ... go till go! and he runs off...
Hmm... From what I've read about Strauss's own interpretation, the postlude is supposed to be kind of a moralizing conclusion, that Till's attitude doesn't pay off. Kinda like saying "Poor little Till got what he deserved". So sorry - he dies definitely ;P And the energic ending notes seem to be just a late-romantic cliché..
This interpretation makes this piece seem quite naive, but it's still hard not to love it ^^
allow me to clear things up. Strauss wrote it for the D clarinet. Today, we use the Eb clarinet. Modern orchestras that play this usually transpose it for the Eb clarinet. There's no easy way to tell the difference between a D and Eb just by looking at it.
macintosh315 1 year ago
No, sorry to argue. Strauss wrote for D CLARINET. >I checked the score. Some orchestras might use the Eb in a transposed version, but that's cheating. Strauss knew his clarinets, he scored for the D in a lot of his operas. As well as the Eb, the C, the Bb of course, the A, the basset horn in F, the bass and even the contrabass.
papoocanada 1 year ago
Think Strauss scored for the rare D clarinet here...
papoocanada 2 years ago
@papoocanada Eb clarinet, not D.
TrabalRipoll 1 year ago
hah, the ending of that piece is hilarious!
asliuf 3 years ago
Haha I know! it's like... poor little till got pillaged by the judge... then , wait no, he's back! look sun, tills in the window for more nasty deeds!! ... go till go! and he runs off...
hah.
good old... postlude..
danbandy2 2 years ago
Hmm... From what I've read about Strauss's own interpretation, the postlude is supposed to be kind of a moralizing conclusion, that Till's attitude doesn't pay off. Kinda like saying "Poor little Till got what he deserved". So sorry - he dies definitely ;P And the energic ending notes seem to be just a late-romantic cliché..
This interpretation makes this piece seem quite naive, but it's still hard not to love it ^^
pjkorab 2 years ago