Klarinet Archive - Posting 000303.txt from 1996/11

From: "Patricia C. Brown" <pcdew@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Mozart articulation
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:45:53 -0500

I know this is late, but I've been away from my computer for a while....
I was wondering about something in relation to all this talk about
Mozartean articulation: weren't the players still playing with the reed on
top at this point in history? I can't remember right now when that switch
in playing technique occurred, but if players were playing reed-on-top,
wouldn't that affect how they articulated and the sound of the
articulation?

I have tried playing reed-on-top as an experiment, and found that I
could articulate very sharply playing that way. But would the "harshness"
of that articulation have sounded bad to a Baroque listener? I could be
way off on this, since I can't remember exactly when the reed moved to the
bottom of the mouthpiece (and I don't have my notebook with me at the
moment to check). But I was wondering how that detail might fit into the
discussion on articulation.

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