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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2002/01

From: Donald MacCourt <maccourt@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] BASSOON: lick in Swan Lake
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:34:02 -0500

I once heard it shortened to four 16ths on a Bernstein recording, but for me
that's a no no. It's good practice for the right hand and then jumping up to
the C#.
Don MacCourt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ramey" <rcramey@-----.edu>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>;
<contrabassoon@-----.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:44 PM
Subject: [DR-L] BASSOON: lick in Swan Lake

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have a question today about a lick in the ballet, Swan Lake. In No. 13
> (possibly marked "Swan's Dance"), Tempo di valse, there is a passage that
> trades off from one woodwind to another, ending with the bassoon (the
> passage with the quintuplet-16ths on beat one). This always seems to be
> a pain in the you-know-what to play. Does anyone shorten the quintuplet
> to a simple tuplet-16th? Or are there other solutions to making this as
> easy to play as a C-major scale?? Thanks!
>
> Richard
>
> Richard Ramey
> Professor of Bassoon
> University of Arkansas
> member, The Ramey Trio
>
>
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