In Henry Woods Fantasy on English Sea Songs there is a long clarinet cadenza. How do I approach the questions concerning:
Looking at the score on IMSLP, I would keep the accidentals as written, not try to add new key signatures.
In terms of time signatures, the usual way to handle this is to write the cadenza under one long tuplet and then hide the number and bracket. I didn’t count carefully, but it looks like roughly a 36:1q tuplet (assuming that the whole cadenza is meant to go in the third beat of that bar), with other tuplets underneath for some of the other groupings.
Edit: Looking at it a little more closely, I guess the cadenza occupies all three beats of that bar. I would leave the first quarter rest as is and then do an 83:4e tuplet over the final 2 beats. This depends a little on how you group some notes, but this math worked for me.
I don’t expect this to be useable, however, it’s good from a learning point of view. The original is so poor in quality. I followed your instructions but ran out of space at the bottom of the first page! Is it possible to extend the tupplet or must I start from scratch again. The second page has not been addressed. Maybe it should be kept separate? I enclose the files if you have time to look at it.
Oh, I was looking at the cadenza 2 pages earlier in the score. For the one you’ve got, you’ll need to count differently.
Another possibility in this case might be be to have the clarinet start with the half note in the 3/4 bar, and then write the rest of the cadenza in the next bar, in open meter. Other instruments would just see a single bar rest.
I think open meter is the way to go in such a long cadenza. Thanks anyway.
